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Expert is a term often assigned by people to other people, sometimes without proof, evidence or fact. Anybody can label himself an authority. Search the word “expert” on LinkedIn and you’ll find more than 4.5 million names! Experts are made, not born. How, then, can you tell when you’re dealing with a genuine expert? Real expertise must pass three tests: superior performance, produce concrete results, and successful outcomes, none of which, of course, are applicable or measurable in an informal hobby such as ours. Best-selling author Simon Sinek says: “The best leaders don’t consider themselves experts; they consider themselves students.” | Expert is a term often assigned by people to other people, sometimes without proof, evidence or fact. Anybody can label himself an authority. Search the word “expert” on LinkedIn and you’ll find more than 4.5 million names! Experts are made, not born. How, then, can you tell when you’re dealing with a genuine expert? Real expertise must pass three tests: superior performance, produce concrete results, and successful outcomes, none of which, of course, are applicable or measurable in an informal hobby such as ours. Best-selling author Simon Sinek says: “The best leaders don’t consider themselves experts; they consider themselves students.” | ||
One popular belief is that the key to becoming an expert is to devote at least 10,000 hours to the study and practice of a subject. This idea is based on a 1993 study in which researchers found that the most accomplished violinists at a music academy had spent an average of 10,000 hours practicing their instrument by the age of 20. Indeed.com challenges this conventional wisdom: “However, there is no way to definitively say whether anyone can become an expert. | One popular belief is that the key to becoming an expert is to devote at least 10,000 hours to the study and practice of a subject. This idea is based on a 1993 study in which researchers found that the most accomplished violinists at a music academy had spent an average of 10,000 hours practicing their instrument by the age of 20. Indeed.com challenges this conventional wisdom: “However, there is no way to definitively say whether anyone can become an expert.” | ||
Now that I have exhausted the definition of expert, who are ''our'' experts? Where should I look, and what will I find? I decided to mine the Web, because that’s where, nowadays, one can find lots of pipe and tobacco commentary. The statements are in no particular order of importance or significance. What they all have in common is the use of the word “expert” or “expertise” to describe certain people, most of whom are, unsurprisingly, unnamed. You might be surprised at what I found. Evaluate the comments and draw your own conclusions. | Now that I have exhausted the definition of expert, who are ''our'' experts? Where should I look, and what will I find? I decided to mine the Web, because that’s where, nowadays, one can find lots of pipe and tobacco commentary. The statements are in no particular order of importance or significance. What they all have in common is the use of the word “expert” or “expertise” to describe certain people, most of whom are, unsurprisingly, unnamed. You might be surprised at what I found. Evaluate the comments and draw your own conclusions. | ||