“As Dunning read through the article, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.”
From Errol Morris in a simply fascinating essay, The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1).
“[I]f you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent.”
I thought that was an interesting article, but how will I ever know if I actually understood it, or whether I only think that I understood it and don’t know any better, because I don’t possess the mental capacity to know that I didn’t understand it?