I think a underrated easy way of building confidence in an area is expanding your vocabulary around it. This doesn’t have to be language, but can be skillset, techniques, frameworks. (thread)
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Not only do you get a higher fidelity map, you feel more oriented, your perspective has more nuance, and if you encounter a challenge you have a lot of little mental anchors you can make use of (even if it’s just a vague recognition & involves googling)
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This is compared to what I often get sucked into doing, which is thinking of the area as one object and mastering that as deeply as I can, instead of breaking it into a lot of different pieces and taking in the breadth of options before me
