Metamorphosing Into an Expert
No matter how unexpert we may be, we all wish we could be authority figures.
I think it would be wonderful to have people run to you each time that they encounter a problem.
Then, you can sit down wisely, ponder over their problems, and give them the answer that they are looking for.
Well, it may not be all that easy to metamorphose into an expert.
It requires years of study, and years of experience.
Six months working in a clothes shop won't turn you into the fashion messiah.
The majority of us lack the discipline to become experts at a particular topic.
We largely prefer to be jacks of all trades and masters of none.
Not that it is a problem to try to be knowledgeable about only the basic concepts of a variety of subjects.
However, the result of all this is that somewhere along the way, we lose out on turning into an expert.
We can repair a fuse, fill out forms, and provide counselling to others who need advice.
However, few of us non-experts can reach beyond and obtain a level of expertise that the common folk lack.
Even experts lack the knowledge to talk about every subject in the world.
A professor of History, for example, may be a walking encyclopedia when it comes to the things of the past.
He may also have a lot of information about the art of the period.
However, to expect him to also be a connoisseur of modern art is expecting a little too much.
Similarly, it is unreasonable to expect a mortgage consultant to be exceptionally well-versed in the fluctuations taking place in the share markets.
He may have a decent amount of information on of the current market situation.
However, it is not necessary that he have an indepth knowledge of all the going-ons in the market.
And what about psychics? A lot of people claim to have psychic abilities.
Yet, only a few of them can truly be said to have perfected the art of giving good psychic readings.
So anyone who wants a true reading goes to those experts only.
I would love to be an expert in Java or C++ or some other programming language.
However, that would take up a lot of time and energy -- effort that I am not ready to put in at this point of time.
So if I have a problem (and this is not just limited to programming languages), the easiest thing would be to turn to an expert and get him/her to help me solve it.
There really is no point in hassling myself by searching everywhere for answers when I can make life so much simpler by finding an expert.
I think it would be wonderful to have people run to you each time that they encounter a problem.
Then, you can sit down wisely, ponder over their problems, and give them the answer that they are looking for.
Well, it may not be all that easy to metamorphose into an expert.
It requires years of study, and years of experience.
Six months working in a clothes shop won't turn you into the fashion messiah.
The majority of us lack the discipline to become experts at a particular topic.
We largely prefer to be jacks of all trades and masters of none.
Not that it is a problem to try to be knowledgeable about only the basic concepts of a variety of subjects.
However, the result of all this is that somewhere along the way, we lose out on turning into an expert.
We can repair a fuse, fill out forms, and provide counselling to others who need advice.
However, few of us non-experts can reach beyond and obtain a level of expertise that the common folk lack.
Even experts lack the knowledge to talk about every subject in the world.
A professor of History, for example, may be a walking encyclopedia when it comes to the things of the past.
He may also have a lot of information about the art of the period.
However, to expect him to also be a connoisseur of modern art is expecting a little too much.
Similarly, it is unreasonable to expect a mortgage consultant to be exceptionally well-versed in the fluctuations taking place in the share markets.
He may have a decent amount of information on of the current market situation.
However, it is not necessary that he have an indepth knowledge of all the going-ons in the market.
And what about psychics? A lot of people claim to have psychic abilities.
Yet, only a few of them can truly be said to have perfected the art of giving good psychic readings.
So anyone who wants a true reading goes to those experts only.
I would love to be an expert in Java or C++ or some other programming language.
However, that would take up a lot of time and energy -- effort that I am not ready to put in at this point of time.
So if I have a problem (and this is not just limited to programming languages), the easiest thing would be to turn to an expert and get him/her to help me solve it.
There really is no point in hassling myself by searching everywhere for answers when I can make life so much simpler by finding an expert.
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