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#+title: Professional narcissism
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#+date: "2021-05-20 20:17:36 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2021-06-18 20:25:17 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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Per Pinker:
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The confusion of the activities of your guild, profession, or field with the subject matter designed to deal with.
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- coined by Steven Pinker from his book, "The sense of style"
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- focuses on an unrelated thing of your study or activity
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- some examples + in film, instead of focusing what movie is about, they boast about the sales or views
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+ in media, "cover the coverage", a problem leading to echo chambers + in learning, instead of focusing what and why of a note-taking method, they focus on the possible effects of your productivity
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- this could also happen on yourself
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+ in note-taking, you may focus on the number of notes instead of the quality of each notes
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+ in programming, you may boast how the program is fast instead of making sure the program is usable
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