Quote of the day by Jay Shetty: "When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little"

Life gives us an endless opportunity to keep learning, and it in itself is a relentless teacher that often throws situations and difficult choices to prepare for the good and the worst for upcoming obstacles in life.


At an early stage of their career or life in general, people think that they know a lot, or have enough knowledge pool, but in reality, one must know that information, knowledge and experiences are those aspects of life that have inexhaustible resources.


For those who depend upon wisdom and try to embrace it, realise that there's a strange paradox about learning: the more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know.


This idea is rightly portrayed by Jay Shetty in his quote

"When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little."


- Jay Shetty
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The quote describes two opposite phases of learning. In the first phase, when we’re learning something new or a part of some topic for the first time, we gain just enough knowledge to feel confident, but not enough to understand how many other branches and complexities the topic really has. We tend to think that climbing the first step of the ladder means owning the rug.


In the second phase, as we dive deeper, we find out about the endless layers of difficulties and exceptions that stand through the theories. Suddenly, then we begin feeling that there’s actually much depth to it, and we don’t know much.

This phenomenon is popularly known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger proposed this cognitive bias in 1999 after studying how people evaluate their own abilities. They found that people with lower experience in their area tend to overestimate their competence, while highly competent people often underestimate theirs.

Well, isn’t it surprisingly ironic to realise you're not good at something, you need to already know enough about it to be good. If you don't know what good looks like, you can't see that you're doing badly.

Jay Shetty's quote reminds us that true wisdom comes with humility. The people who know the most are often the ones who say the least, because they understand the limits of their knowledge.