Too late...

[Billy Goat]

But maybe some can enjoy before it's gone.

 

[BRTreedogs]

At least its something new

 

[CorbLand]

This is why I choose to be an expert on how not to be an expert.

 

[bsnedeker]

This is why I choose to be an expert on how not to be an expert.

I went a different route...I became an expert at detecting fake experts.

Here's the trick: They act like they are an expert.

 

[CorbLand]

I went a different route...I became an expert at detecting fake experts.

Here's the trick: They act like they are an expert.

Its a vicious cycle.

 

[TreeStandAthlete]

I no shit had a 20 year old car detailer with a GED in my 3d league last week give me a lecture on how I should be putting my retirement into crypto...the expert in a week is becoming...dare I say...a pandemic.

 

[Billy Goat]

I no shit had a 20 year old car detailer with a GED in my 3d league last week give me a lecture on how I should be putting my retirement into crypto...the expert in a week is becoming...dare I say...a pandemic.

The more people he talks into it, the better his portfolio.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I'm an expert in my own Affairs and that's all that really matters.

 

[wind gypsy]

I no shit had a 20 year old car detailer with a GED in my 3d league last week give me a lecture on how I should be putting my retirement into crypto...the expert in a week is becoming...dare I say...a pandemic.

I have a mechanic who is a "crypto expert." He ran into my office a while back screaming "I'm a millionaire" while shaking with adrenaline and showing me his phone app and asking how to get his money off the exchange. The values of the crypto shitcoins on his app were showing in the 10's of BILLIONs. I said, "hey mechanic, that's 3 commas meaning 10s of billions, not millions. It's not really worth that." He wouldn't have it and ran out of the office convinced he was a multimillionaire.

A quick google search revealed the app he used was hacked to show absurd impossible coin valuations. I texted him a link quick to save him from further embarrassment

 

[PNW bow hunter]

Definition of an expert: someone who is way above average at offering their opinion

 

[Customweld]

I have a mechanic who is a "crypto expert." He ran into my office a while back screaming "I'm a millionaire" while shaking with adrenaline and showing me his phone app and asking how to get his money off the exchange. The values of the crypto shitcoins on his app were showing in the 10's of BILLIONs. I said, "hey mechanic, that's 3 commas meaning 10s of billions, not millions. It's not really worth that." He wouldn't have it and ran out of the office convinced he was a multimillionaire.

A quick google search revealed the app he used was hacked to show absurd impossible coin valuations. I texted him a link quick to save him from further embarrassment

I was a "billionaire" on that same day! I took a screenshot of my account , that's undoubtedly the closest I will ever get

 

[Billy Goat]

I'm an expert in my own Affairs and that's all that really matters.

Shoot I ain't close there either.

 

[CorbLand]

I have a mechanic who is a "crypto expert." He ran into my office a while back screaming "I'm a millionaire" while shaking with adrenaline and showing me his phone app and asking how to get his money off the exchange. The values of the crypto shitcoins on his app were showing in the 10's of BILLIONs. I said, "hey mechanic, that's 3 commas meaning 10s of billions, not millions. It's not really worth that." He wouldn't have it and ran out of the office convinced he was a multimillionaire.

A quick google search revealed the app he used was hacked to show absurd impossible coin valuations. I texted him a link quick to save him from further embarrassment

Same thing happened to me but I knew it couldnt be true. I think I had like 9 billion dollars. I walked into my bosses office, told him thanks for the opportunity and its been fun but I think I will take the rest of my day and life off. He laughed.

 

[roadrunner]

Most experts are self-appointed.

I'm not a jack of any trade and not a master of any of those.

 

[downthepipe]

I guess only other countries will be educated and sophisticated enough to have a citizenry that is well informed on a number of intellectual topics.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Burnout happens,,,sometimes it's just best to move on.

 

[Zeke6951]

I used to have a friend that when asked "What do you know." His answered, " I don't know too much and I get that mixed up." I always liked that answer.

 

[CJ19]

Its pretty common for non-experts to not recognize experts when they see them. Experts know this.

 

[Marbles]

I'm an expert on nothing, not even the foreign policy topics that the military official called me a SME (subject matter expert) on. Nor on the health topics that I will have a masters degree in come May (and quite a few years of experience as well). But I can have an educated conversation about many things, some as an interested individual and others as someone with a deep background in the topic.

Health care (as long as you don't get too esoteric in how you define it) is a fielded where true expertise exists. Foreign policy is a field where expertise is rare outside of limited geographic areas. Economics is a field where quite literally lay people predict things as well as the experts (and sometimes a blindfolded monkey throwing darts literally makes more accurate predictions). Human behavior on the other hand, is a topic that applies to all those areas and more, so a lifelong study of it is wise, even for those without grand ambitions.

In general, Dunning-Kruger "experts" lack nuance in how they discuss things. True experts know the limits of their knowledge because regardless of its depth, they have plumed it and found themselves wanting. The sad thing is most people will decide "real" vs "fake" expert based on who they agree with, not based on the arguments made. And, even a true expert can be wrong, so regardless, it is the substance, not who is speaking, that matters.

 

[Pony Soldier]

I'm really good at a few things that few people care about. The sad part is that on a regular basis I find something new that I thought I totally understood. The most depressing thing is realizing that you will never know it all before you die.

Maybe the real goal is to share what you know with some and hope they will know it all before they die.

The most miserable thing is the number of people that know it all but really don't have a clue.