Unskilled and Unaware of It

Dake pointed me to this interesting research journal, titled Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. The title says it all, really.

Which leads me to wonder: am I really capable of determining how capable I am? Is anyone? Life doesn't always provide the references that we need to measure ourselves against. And even we do come across suitable references, will we be able to recognize them for what they are?

And later on, if I look back at my older photos and find that they suck, will that mean that my competency in photograpy is improving...?

Guess I'll just keep shooting.