retroactive ignorance acknowledgment

Think about a process, skill or tradition you learned or acquired recently. Something like the best way to grill a steak or the technique for installing wood siding shingles, or how to keep a sourdough starter healthy. Something that isn’t common knowledge, has a few non-obvious tricks, never leaves you once you learn it, and yields wildly better results than the uninitiated would receive. Now remember back before you had this knowledge and think of a scenario (real memory or fictitious simulation) where you were surrounded by people who knew this thing while you did not, and your ignorance was on display without you knowing it.

Knowing what you know now, how would your uninformed words and actions come across to those who were in the know? What might they think about you? How would you assess yourself, were to you be one of the observers? How would you hope you would act - what’s the best move for someone in that situation?