What is the Duck effect?
To put it simply, the more powerful a person is, the more ignorant they feel and the more humble they are to others, because they have an open mind and are always ready to accept new knowledge or ideas from the outside. And the more ordinary people are, the more they will feel that they know everything, and they will not take other people's words seriously.
The Darker effect explains the difference between high and low cognition.
People with high cognition, even if they are in high positions and knowledgeable, can still be humble and listen patiently in the face of newcomers, interns, and even people with different views in the industry. Their respect for others is regardless of respect or inferiority.
People with low cognition, on the contrary, always have an inexplicable sense of superiority even if their own abilities are average, and they are arrogant to those who are inferior to him, and flatter those who are stronger than him. Whether these people respect others or not depends on the strength of the other person's ability, but on the other person's identity label.
This difference seems to be a matter of cultivation on the surface, but deep down it is a gap in cognitive breadth and depth. It can be said that the level of a person's cognition determines the way we see ourselves, others and the world.
To be more specific, a person's cognitive system is like a "mental model" of how the world works that he has built for himself. The size and fineness of this model directly determine his behavior pattern.
People with high cognition have grand and complex mental models, so they are in awe of things.
As long as you are an individual, you will always have your own limitations, and you will have the boundaries of your own vision and ability, so you must understand that "what I know is just a drop in the ocean". Therefore, know how to be humble and open to unknown territories and people with different information.
Confucius ascended the eastern mountain and looked down on the state of Lu; when he climbed Mount Tai, he made the world smaller. Only by seeing the vastness of the world will you know your own insignificance.