Managing Expectations: Recognition in Psychology

Don't expect recognition; it requires expertise to recognize mastery, making it unreasonable to expect from most people.

### The Unreasonable Expectation of Recognition
* 😢 People have a deep psychological need for **recognition and acknowledgment**, but it's rarely **reasonable to expect it**.
* 🎖 Recognition requires some degree of mastery, and without it, most people will be unable to **recognize competence and mastery**.
* 🤝 "Most people will be forever **uninitiated into your specific field of competence and mastery**."
* 🔍 It would require someone at **master status** to recognize the **brilliance and mastery** in a certain field.
* 👏 While you might receive some recognition from a small subset of individuals within your domain of mastery, **expecting it from people in general is unreasonable**.
* 💊 "It's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's the **truth**."

Don't expect recognition: why no one cares about your thing

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People have a deep psychological need for recognition, but it is rarely reasonable to expect it.

Recognition requires a high level of mastery, making it difficult for the average person to truly appreciate or acknowledge brilliance in a field.

Expertise is necessary to recognize mastery, making it invisible to the uninitiated.

Expecting recognition from the general population is unreasonable, as only a small subset within the same field may offer acknowledgment.