DEV Community

Discussion on: You don't need to know everything (but you should know something well)

Collapse
 
rhymes profile image
rhymes

Collectively it creates the illusion that everyone is doing awesome stuff surrounded by friends.

Yeah, that illusion of grandeur that feeds the fear of missing out in other people.

We might never consciously realize that the person who writes about some specific React component and the one who writes about containers and the other who just created his own blogging platform are all different people. In our minds they become this composite developer who knows everything we don't.

That's a great way to put it! We take bits and pieces about other people lives we like and create this Frankestein-meta-human we aspire to be, except that it doesn't exist