the magic of the unknown

The dunning Kruger effect desricbes how ones confindence is related to the knowledge one has in any given field. If a person only has a small chunk of knowledge in a given field they are unaware of all the knowledge that lies within that field. Therefore one might have the illusion to be almost an expert and the confidence of being almost an expert. However, every human who sticks a little bit longer realizes how wrong they were and the aount of closed doors they haven't even seen before. The mountain of knowledge might seem overwhelming and unreachable, therefore ones confidence falls to the ground. But if one keeps hiking up that mountain, with time ones confidence starts to rise again.

I think this curve is also true for the magic of any field. At the very beginning everything is unknown, so everything seems like magic. The more one learns the more this magic fades away. It seems like everything inexplicable is now just a combination of boring facts, rules and instructions. And yet if one keeps paddling long enough the magic of that field shows up again. One realizes what has yet to be discovered and how so many different inputs came together to form this field of knowledge.