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I finally caught myself doing that thing where I pretend to understand in class
I was in a sophomore level economics lecture about supply curves and I realized I had been nodding along for 3 months without actually knowing what 'elasticity' meant. The professor drew a graph where the line went flat and I had no idea why that mattered. It hit me that I spent more energy looking like I got it than actually asking dumb questions. Has anyone else had that wake up call where you realize you've been faking it way longer than you thought?
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kai4632d ago
...but here's the thing though - how do you even know what questions to ask when you don't know what you don't know? Like with that elasticity thing, you could raised your hand and said "what does that mean" but the professor would probably start throwing out terms like price sensitivity and demand curves and you'd be just as lost five minutes later. I had that happen in a physics class once where I asked what a vector was and ended up more confused than before I spoke up. Did you ever try just stopping the professor right at the moment the graph went flat and saying "I don't understand why that line matters" or did you just keep nodding?
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