Do you consider yourself to be an "expert"...

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by ted

I am out standing in my field.

LOL....mebbe so old-timer... but you appear to be outta yer field ..

[A930Rocket]

Knowledgeable after 30 years of building homes, but learn something new all the time. Sometimes, I learn it several times.

[look 171]

Not me, but my wife is.

[PRE-H20]

yes i do, but the key is to keep an open mind to continue learning.

once you THINK you know it all, then you have stopped learning. i learn for my sons, to pass all along to them.

saw a funny thing on the inter-web the other day....

who needs GOOGLE, my wife knows it all!

i couldnt stop laughing.........

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Sometimes, I learn it several times.

I do this all the time

30yrs road car/racing car composite design, not sure that makes me an expert as there is plenty I know I don't know or haven't experienced yet

[RSBob]

No, just an ex two times running.

[Erakad]

I think I may have been once, but now I just mainly hang out....

[ckelly78z]

I'm an expert in DIY engineering in home projects (Afro-engineering).

[p911dad]

In the last century I was an expert witness in real estate appraisal in the NY State court system.. Having had my guts ripped out by several attorneys smarter than me, I gave it up and became a manager.

[Jims5543]

I have a license that the state requires me to renew every 2 years after taking 24 hours of classes to prove I know enough to do what I do.

When those classes were in a room of my peers, I sat among a group of the finest sexual intellectuals who were all there for the sole purpose of making sure everyone in the room knew they were the best at what they do.

Every 2 years that go by, I realize how little I know and the immense amount I need to learn, every day that goes by, I learn something new. Anytime there is a mistake, that is an instant lesson on what not to do and then figuring out how to make sure I never do that again.

No, even in the field some would think I am an expert in, I am always learning more and far from being an expert.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fintstone

So many men these days are seeming incapable of simple, seemingly manly things like driving a stick shift or chopping down a tree...that it is hard not to get a little big for one's britches.

So that's why my pants always end up looking like "The Hulk"'s pants!

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by fintstone

So many men these days are seeming incapable of simple, seemingly manly things like driving a stick shift or chopping down a tree...that it is hard not to get a little big for one's britches.

Fun stories....

My older son took on a side hustle job several years ago working for a valet service. They were ecstatic he knew how to drive stick. He learned on stick and has always had a manual car. He got to park a lot of pretty cool cars all because he was one of the only 2 guys that could drive stick working there.

I took my E30 up to the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando for a long weekend, I parked it with the Valet, the first guy came running up to take the car and stopped as soon as he saw inside the car, he could not drive stick, he had to find the guy that could. They ended up moving it 30 feet and parking it up front thinking it was one of the cooler cars they had in the valet that weekend. Parked among Porsches and Ferraris. LOL!

I leant out my chainsaw one time too many, it was purchased at Sears in 1997, I remember purchasing it do to a job for a client, it was a craftsman that I took very good care of. My BIL borrowed it a few times and every time he brought it back it was in worse shape, the last time he never drained the gas and it was cheap ethanol crap. He ruined it. I threw it away, it owed me nothing. I purchased a Stihl 18" this past Friday with the intent of destroying a bunch of Brazilian Pepper trees behind my yard that have been frustrating me.

I got out back with my new chainsaw with no real plan other than to kill things. I started cutting everything I saw, nothing would fall, they were all interwoven to the point they are all holding each other up. I should have come up with the better plan..

After about 30 minutes, I decided I had created a very dangerous situation for myself and I should GTF out of there. There has been continuous cracking and popping for days now. I am happy to report all the trees are drying so there is that.

I retreated to my side of the fence and started cutting everything reaching over into my yard (what I should have started with) and have a plan to go to the other end now and work my way towards the mess.

Seems I am very dangerous with a chainsaw and no plan.

[Bill Douglas]

But on the plus side. Hasn't that trauma brought you and the new chainsaw together. Another 20 something years of love and joy with eachother.

[Macroni]

Might not be an expert but I have abilities I am extremely confident in.....

[tabs]

By the time I was a Junior in HS, my history teachers had me lecture all their classes on WW2.

I have friends both here and gone who have forgotten more than I will ever know about spoons...but reading descriptions of spoons posted by Sellers etc I realize most of them don't know very much.

My Grandfather told me when just a mere lad as he had told my Father before me that, "They can take every thing you have away from you but the knowledge you have." To that end everything that I have some sort of interest in, I absorb all information I can and thus have knowledge there of. When I was 20 I embarked upon a journey of living the self examined life and have been doing so ever since. Relentlessly so. As a result I know what will make me twitch and more over if I pay attention I will know what makes you twitch. The practical application of having that knowledge is having the ability to thread your way through situations where the outcome is the most advantageous to yourself.

As I have described before is what I term as being able to thread the eye of the needle. Which means that you are not caught up in the emotion or visual perception of the moment but are able to see beyond that to see what is actually going on or what the situation really is. The first time I was able to consciously do that was in September 1983 when I was able to stop see the situation and thus resolve the issue at hand.

I have struggled for a long time trying to describe something else that I do. the best way to describe it is having a stereoscopic view of the world. Where I can see both sides of an issue at once which gives one a depth of vision . One that goes beyond just the visceral plain of perceptions. It is the ability to see multiple dimensions and how each interfaces with the others in order to see how a process works and moreover to know the principles of why it functions that way. You might say it is having knowledge of an unquantifiable reality.

Then there is the employment of exhibiting a certain amount of professional swager in doing what one does. Which is designed to achieve certain ends. But at the end of the day if one can not deliver the goods then the swager becomes hollow thus meaningless.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

Fun stories....

My older son took on a side hustle job several years ago working for a valet service. They were ecstatic he knew how to drive stick. He learned on stick and has always had a manual car. He got to park a lot of pretty cool cars all because he was one of the only 2 guys that could drive stick working there.

I took my E30 up to the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando for a long weekend, I parked it with the Valet, the first guy came running up to take the car and stopped as soon as he saw inside the car, he could not drive stick, he had to find the guy that could. They ended up moving it 30 feet and parking it up front thinking it was one of the cooler cars they had in the valet that weekend. Parked among Porsches and Ferraris. LOL!

I leant out my chainsaw one time too many, it was purchased at Sears in 1997, I remember purchasing it do to a job for a client, it was a craftsman that I took very good care of. My BIL borrowed it a few times and every time he brought it back it was in worse shape, the last time he never drained the gas and it was cheap ethanol crap. He ruined it. I threw it away, it owed me nothing. I purchased a Stihl 18" this past Friday with the intent of destroying a bunch of Brazilian Pepper trees behind my yard that have been frustrating me.

I got out back with my new chainsaw with no real plan other than to kill things. I started cutting everything I saw, nothing would fall, they were all interwoven to the point they are all holding each other up. I should have come up with the better plan..

After about 30 minutes, I decided I had created a very dangerous situation for myself and I should GTF out of there. There has been continuous cracking and popping for days now. I am happy to report all the trees are drying so there is that.

I retreated to my side of the fence and started cutting everything reaching over into my yard (what I should have started with) and have a plan to go to the other end now and work my way towards the mess.

Seems I am very dangerous with a chainsaw and no plan.

So are you going to lend out this new CS to the BIL?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

The 10,000 hour rule applies here.

"An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates as quoted by Plato.

To the end of examining ones life I have about 240,000 hours in.

You have to remember that once you take that dirt nap in the bone orchard that all the money, fame and achievement in life means nothing. You better have something more meaningful.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

I have a license that the state requires me to renew every 2 years after taking 24 hours of classes to prove I know enough to do what I do.

When those classes were in a room of my peers, I sat among a group of the finest sexual intellectuals who were all there for the sole purpose of making sure everyone in the room knew they were the best at what they do.

Every 2 years that go by, I realize how little I know and the immense amount I need to learn, every day that goes by, I learn something new. Anytime there is a mistake, that is an instant lesson on what not to do and then figuring out how to make sure I never do that again.

No, even in the field some would think I am an expert in, I am always learning more and far from being an expert.

My wife was the HR director at a small local university. She had to know the law on so many things as to why something are done only one way, because some law says so. If she was confused by some conflict with laws, she had one guy that worked for the state that always knew the answer. She said he must have looked like the aliens with the enormous brains that always know the answer.

In the world of aerial photography we have to make orthophotos for our clients. There are some complex rules and steps involved. We had one guy we could call the answer any question we ever had. It was always amazing that obscure technical details were so easy for him to explain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto

[Seahawk]

Specific expertise? Yes, absolutely.

Pilot. I was an expert at all facets.

And I could have still augured in like a mortar round.

Puts expertise in a bit more focus.

[aschen]

On the slope of enlightenment on a few subjects and the valley of despair for many


Probably haven't reached the plateau on anything, but don't think I am guilty of hanging out on Mt. Stupid. Opinions may vary.