Surprise Expertise

There’s an expert on everything, no matter how obscure. Today I had a meeting with people who were well outside my area of expertise, but who needed my help. They weren’t just shocked that I was an expert on learning modalities, they were shocked that anyone was. It was so far outside of their normal zone that they hadn’t considered it as a subject that someone could master.

But that’s the nature of human knowledge! What you know is a drop, and what you don’t know is an ocean. You can be an expert on that drop and still no next to nothing, broadly speaking. So when you’re troubled by some dilemma, fear not – just do a little searching. The expert on that particularly troublesome drop is out there, waiting to help.

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