one downside of formal education is it tends to teach you there are answers to things.

before I was properly educated I relied more on gut and whatever made sense from my own life experience. that’s all I had and needed. 

after university I became skeptical of my experience and a believer in reproducible science which is often contradicting to n=1 personal experience.

result is more uncertainty: “is this the correct choice? Do I know enough to choose this? what unknown unknowns are there?”.

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used to happen to me too during and right after my first degree. Would def overthink too much & worry too far ahead about my decisions. Because of it, didn’t really enjoy my early 20’s. Luckily, learned to overcome that