Doing things for the first time can be difficult. People who are smarter than me call it the “Dunning-Kruger Effect”. At first you see someone doing something you’re interested in for the first time like basketball and it seems easy enough, but when you get on the court you quickly find out that it’s hard. I had that experience during my first radio show. I went in super confident because after hearing everyone else’s shows it seemed easy enough, but after doing an air check I realized there was a lot to work on. Sometimes I would talk very low when I wrote my brakes to be high energy, I would talk like I was trying to ask a question, and some bits were too long. I realized I had to work on these things. The “Dunning-Kruger Effect” can really be a downer, but just like playing an instrument, all it takes is practice. The thing is you can’t quit. If you do, how will you know you can do it or not? Don’t let this effect hold you back. To get better at something you need to start somewhere. Repetition is also a good way to learn. Doing things over and over again gets the brain to go into a rhythm and you can get down how something has to be. I will be going on air every Friday so there is repetition to it and with the air checks I can see what needs to be done to improve. The Dunning-Kruger Effect can be an effective way of judging how much practice you need in order to master something. You start with a lot of confidence, but then after you go through a realization that you need to work on it more in order to master that thing. You have to take your first step before you can take your second step.
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