Expose Your Ignorance
For
this week, I continued reading the Apprenticeship Pattern and the first one
that I got into is “Expose Your Ignorance”. To simply explain this
pattern, it encourages the readers to basically no being afraid of feeling
ignorance and stupid when asking about what we don’t know.
The
problem of this chapter is presented with an example of a work environment that
requires the developer to be familiar with required with technologies, but we
simply just don’t have any idea how to use it. I like how the author says that
it happens to everyone because it is true that people can’t know everything and
this would let the readers know that it is common, furthermore encourage them
to not be afraid and expose their ignorance. With the question of how should
one exposing himself/herself to be the most effective, the author gave us one simple
solution, which is to show other people that you might not know about it, but
you are willing to learn how to do it during the process of delivering software.
Leading off as the author acknowledge the common feeling that the societies are
increasingly dependent on the competence as a developer and we just have so
many zones of ignorance, the author shows us that we still shouldn’t be afraid
to tell people the truth despite feeling those pressure. According to him, to
let people know that you are in the process of learning that particular
technology is important to either build a strong relationship with people or build
your own reputation of our learning ability. I would say that this is very true
because the fact that people would appreciate the time that we put out to try
to learn and use it properly rather than just lying about it and then forcefully
use it the way it’s not intended to or finding a walkaround. The author then encourages
us to ask questions and adopt the ability to learn as it is the easiest way to
get to know something. It is rather an uncomfortable process, but it’s probably
the most efficient way to learn in the end.
I
can see myself completely agree with what the author said to exposing my own
ignorance. I believe that it is what a lot of people in the past did in order
to be at their position right now and I also believe that a lot of apprentice
like us should not afraid to be judged and do the same, just to get ourselves
better every day. I know that I myself do suffer from the fear of asking. Sure,
I do want to learn, but I also want to prove to others that I know a lot too,
and this chapter helps me to realize that actively learning is also another way
to positively prove to other people, and I should not be avoiding it when
needed.
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