How Can One Correctly Assess Their Own Ability?
jacquesm: Competence is not a constant. Even if today you may not be as skilled as your potential indicates you could be there is a simple way to change that:Do stuff! And learn while you're doing it. Spend time reading and really absorbing and integrating the stuff you read until it makes sense, then apply that knowledge, repeatedly.Nobody was born competent.So use your abilities as they are today as a starting point and build them up from there, and don't worry too much about where you are on the scale, as long as you keep moving up you'll be fine.Interaction with other people (here on HN there are some pretty smart people and they're not at all scared to share their knowledge) can accelerate that process, both because you can learn from others and because you can test your knowledge.The fact that you're posting this here would indicate that you already got that last point :)