If You Have These 5 Attributes, You’re an Expert

An expert is:

1. One who has tried, who has practical experience in a field.
2. Conversely, one who has been tried has a few wounds to show for it. If you don’t have a glorious failure or two under your belt, you’re probably not ready to be an “expert” for others hoping to avoid the same thing.
3. One who has acquired comprehensive knowledge and continues to learn about a field.
4. One who has authority as appointed to them by the community for having demonstrated they know their stuff.
5. One who experiments – taking the field further. I call them thinkers and tinkerers.

via Conversation Agent.

Some interesting comments:

DJ: I personally don’t love the word expert. After all, experts are usually wrong more then they are right.

Taylor: I typically assume that an expert is not open to embracing ideas which challenge their “expertness”.

Carolyn: A cynic once told me that an expert was someone who knew more and more about less and less until they knew absolutely everything about absolutely nothing!

Gavin: I guess we’re all experts in something!

Well, I can tell you one thing: Believe in proof not experts.

Filed in Interesting on 06 Oct 09 | Tags: expert

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