An assumption that I can judge whether or not a person X has talent. I thought when I saw Often Posthumously evaluated. people, so I’m not sure that contemporaries necessarily have this kind of “ability to judge.” That may be acting as an immunity to approval-dependent.

  • He believes that he “can’t judge his own worth” and further believes that “others can’t judge him either, of course,” and he trusts his own judgment because he has the best understanding of it of all those that no one else can judge.

  • Over the years of observing Social Triggers, I’ve seen articles that were written years ago and didn’t get any buzz at the time they were written, but continue to get positive mentions for years afterwards.

There is a section that thinks that an article that gets mentioned over a long period of time is “better” than an article that gets buzzed about temporarily and then gets no mention. - Knowledge obsolescence


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