” In 2011, David Dunning wrote about his observations that people with substantial, measurable deficits in their knowledge or expertise lack the ability to recognise those deficits and, therefore, despite potentially making error after error, tend to think they are performing competently when they are not.
“In short, those who are incompetent, for lack of a better term, should have little insight into their incompetence—an assertion that has come to be known as the Dunning–Kruger effect”.[2] In 2014, Dunning and Helzer described how the Dunning–Kruger effect “suggests that poor performers are not in a position to recognize the shortcomings in their performance” –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Intelligence is not a birthright, it is earned through great effort. Or should I say, the capacity for intelligence is cultivated from birth and never ends. I know people, including myself, who through hell on earth or trial by fire, have had to become smarter, seeing our process of thought changing.
This concept is quite strange, as you have to realise that when you are going through a “bad time, or bad moment”, you are actually evolving. It is not some definitive higher power punishing you, or that the universe is against you. It is just a change in motion and more often than not, change hurts and is taxing. But you will get through it and be better off.
Change is the very essence of who we are. It is the sense in the chaos, the reason for purpose. It is the very thing which has led mankind, to you being able to log onto this awesome news site and read interesting and informative articles. It is the very reason how we went from the stone age to an age filled with childhood obesity, hairstyles and Snapchat.
But I digress, through my dealings with people, learning how human beings make decisions or justify their realities, I have been given a unique insight into the very problem we are still facing as a species, well at least us South Africans.
We have lost ourselves to politics and bygone years. We have as a country, in some weird way, stopped being a country and have become groups of people, within groups of people. People who are all trying to be unique and stand out, while following international trends and cultures. In other words…HUH!
Either we are dealing with a theory such as the one pioneered by Kruger and Dunning, or we are choosing to ignore realities and people’s worlds. In the absence of intelligence, aggression becomes the order of the day. In the absence of logic, outdated ways of thinking become the standard. And most importantly, we become controllable puppets.
We as a country are more focused on division now than ever before. Everything is about something else and not what it’s actually supposed to be.
So many facets of our political system are fundamentally flawed, but at the same time, so many vital elements of our government are much better than they once were. It is just about, how do you see it all.
Are you a person who is striving for better in not only your life, but those of your countrymen? Or are you one of those people, who just run everything down, find problems for solutions and most importantly suppress intelligence to support aggression which has been imparted on you?
Most people who read this will simply say, ” This is not aimed at me, or I am an intelligent person who gets it”. However, you are measured on your actions and not your intentions. You cannot run people down, judge others and complain about life, yet think you are beaming with intelligence.
South Africa is a land of promise. What are you going to do? Go to Aus and clean floors? Are you going to move to a first world country which does not promote entrepreneurship, but rather jobs based on an array of criteria? Are you prepared to give it all up, just to start again as a stranger in a foreign land?
You live in the land of gold, a country which has had to change. A country which if it didn’t change, would be worse off now than if it did not. If we were still living under sanctions and unfair treatment but to name a few, do you think the world would even care about good old South Africa? Of course not. We would be seen as “that country”, the same way any country throughout history was viewed, which had dramatic laws, suppression and bias. SA would by today’s standard be painted with the same brush as 1940’s Germany.
You just are too worried about political opinions and what everyone else is doing. I constantly meet people who are seriously winning in SA, simply because it is not a first world county. This shows there is opportunity around every corner, due to South Africa being a developing country.
With great effort and a functional attitude, coupled with insane grit, the opportunities in our beloved SA are endless.
It is time to either shed your aggression and lack of want for a better life. Yes, it is hard work, yes it requires being excellent. But you can have an amazing life in SA, as long as you move with the times and evolve your outdated way of thinking. No South African needs to hate anymore, we simply need to use intelligence to combat the issues we face.
Of course, we are not perfect and there are many challenges, the problem is we only see the problems now and forsake any good or prospect which is in our world.
