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There exists, in the folklore of virtually every craft and profession, a moment of initiation that practitioners recall with a mixture of tenderness and horror: the moment at which they first apprehended the true dimensions of their own ignorance. Musicians speak of the day they heard a recording that revealed the…

• What do the examples of musicians, surgeons, and scholars have in common?
• According to the passage, why do incompetent individuals overestimate their abilities?