i personally have been a person with blind confidence for as long as i can think
ive read online and just picked up “the scout mindset” book which is about thinking rationally
this is what i think before i read through the book which apparently teaches you how to think more rationally and not fall for self deception.
why i think blind confidence is good ties in with my hyper optimistic approach to life
so let me explain why i think this way right now.
i believe anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it
ive done this a few times and always wish i could do it more of ie; setting a huge goal which seems too hard to reach, and full sending in that direction
there’s two sides to this coin
- going at it rationally
this is what i did in 2023- now it can be that i failed because of different reasons but this is definitely one of it; when you work towards a goal with rationalism, you cant just start working towards it; you need to really align yourself with that “goal” you need to know the answer to your “why”s, you need to know the answer to what you’ll get out after doing it; if it ties in with what you want to do in the future and bullshit like that
my brain was thinking about all this and contemplating over many different parameters left me at the end of with no progress made on the said goal.
i only realized that i was not making progress after many months of doing the same and getting nowhere.
- blind confidence
a couple weeks before i was in talks of joining a quant team in chicago looking to build in defi i had 0 idea about defi / quant dev / anything they were working on but there were a few things i could contribute to in that project
but what i actually wanted was to learn defi while working and contributing
hmm, maybe this is not the right example. what i wanted to say with this example was that, i simply didnt think so much but just started working and contributing and learning whatever needed in the process, and in this way i made wayy more progress towards it
i think the reason to this was actually different and not actually blind confidence. the parameters which led to me making so much progress in that short amount of time was actually external accountability, situational interest and the high hanging fruit which i really wanted ( working with smart people who doing hard things )
but i have had periods of blind confidence back in 2021 / 2022 where i actually didnt know anything
but i was able to do a lot of things regardless because i simply believed that it was not impossible and i could do it
and it mostly led to good results.
hmm.
i wonder if it really does make sense to be more rational now lol
but one thing im almost 100% certain that i need to be more rational in, is money.