I am very self defacing. And I think it hurts the way others percieve me. I do it in order to be humble, but I am starting to think that isn't really humility. Instead of saying, "I don't know how to Hibernate and XDoclets" I say, "I don't know how to do persistance in Java". There is a very large difference between the two.
I have a problem with determining when I should or should not gloss over the details. My father used to get very frustrated with me because I would "build him a clock" when describing something. So, in an effort to not waste people's time (it wasn't just my father), I started trying to generalize things. This tends to lead people to believe that you don't know what you are talking about or that you don't know anything.
So, for now I will search out the definition of humility and see if I can hit it. I will try to accurately determine when to be specific or general in my communication. If I decide that it is time to be specific, I will try not go on ad nauseum. With that, I am off to read about Hibernate and XDoclet.
Posted by carl at March 5, 2003 11:22 PM
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