Getting Glued to Your Own Reality Show - Dunning-Kruger effect in Reverse

Instead of over-estimating, I under-estimate.

And I bet you do too. A not-so-nice name for it is: beating your Self up.

Which is the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect, first documented by two psychologists at Cornwell University in 1999. They noticed that the less skill a person had, the more likely there were to overestimated that skill.

(e.g. no lack of dreadful acts optimistically auditioning for American Idol.)

I woke up this morning lamenting my lack of productivity.

However - a la Buddha and FM's combined insight - I knew better than to depend on my own illusionary view of reality. I know to ask my Self this question: "Is it true that I was unproductive yesterday?"

What you feel about your Self is - according to the Dunning-Kruger effect - most likely to be wrong. I decided I needed data. Was I productive? Was I lazy?

Let's find out.

It was time to harvest some data from my self-imposed productivity experiment. On December 30th, 2015 I decided to start writing a daily blog to my Self. After shower and meditation, I make it my first act of work.

In my blog, I write down what I intend to accomplish that day.

Next day, I post the previous day's objectives, adding a "YES" or "NO" to indicate if I accomplished them or not.

This morning, I first calculated how often I stuck to my grand plan. In the 880 days since I started running this experiment, I have posted 438 times. Which is basically once every second day. So far, so good. No basis for a beat-up here.

Next, I looked at the list I had made yesterday.

Saturday, May 27th, 2018:

20m - Precepts

60m - Run & shower

40m - MM

30m - Posture Daily

30m - ATSuccess Daily

60m - Fix Discovery Sales page

60m - Make Sales Page in Kajabi

30m - Pay bills in Oz (transfer monies)

30m - Call the girls

30m - Zero inbox

This was the plan for the day I felt/believed I had wasted.

Finally, I booted up my blog - which I secretly keep on Google's blogspot - posted the list again, and put a YES or NO next to each item to indicate if I accomplished it or not.

I was shocked. The result did not match my perception AT ALL!

Here's what I found:

20m - Precepts YES

60m - Run & shower YES

40m - MM YES

30m - Posture Daily YES

30m - ATSuccess Daily YES

60m - Fix Sales page YES

60m - Make Sales Page in Kajabi NO

30m - Pay bills in Oz (transfer monies) YES

30m - Call the girls YES

45m - Zero inbox YES

9 things I said I would do, I did.

Only one thing was left undone.

That's 9/10 which is 90% and there is absolutely no justification in my feeling-based belief that yesterday was a non-productive day.

And that's how I like to do things in ATSuccess.

Forget how you feel sweetie - what is the data telling you?

I don't mean to undermine instinct - I am a big fan of that - I do mean to undermine the "I am no good" and "I can't" mind that dominates every teacher who fails to accomplish what they set out to do. And the feel-good Dunning-Kruger mind which says you are accomplishing a lot, when you're basically just re-arranging chairs on the Titanic.

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