Can we scale self-awareness?

This quote, which I borrowed from this article, is a good descriptor of humanity in some respects. The article is about “talent management,” i.e. recruiting and sourcing and HR stuff. Paradoxically, those types of things are massively important to people because the job you have often determines other aspects of your life. But no one really cares about it until they need to (i.e. they just got fired), or until it becomes a money issue (i.e. executives who are spending too much money because of turnover). It’s amazing how little we care about the process of getting jobs when you consider how important it is to have jobs. Anyway, I digress.

At the individual level…

… this quote would be about a lack of self-awareness, which is fairly common in many human beings. In fact, per psychological research, usually idiots think they’re geniuses. People get confused by that, but … it makes perfect sense. An actual genius and/or a person with self-awareness is never satisfied and wants to get better consistently. An idiot achieves one basic thing, i.e. exiting a bathroom without toilet paper attached to their shoe, and thinks they have conquered the world. In reality, workplaces have many more idiots than geniuses. That’s also logical. The way we set up work doesn’t make really smart people want to stay. It makes them want to go do their own thing.