The source of your expertise

[rah]

At least it's a valuable skill.

 

[Hygro]

Lexicus highlights our use of expertise here. It’s hard to know when expert is valid. Holding to the standard of the ultimate masters overshoots the target. And self assessment by the skilled trends the unconfident side of the Dun-Krug; or, experts who don’t know they are such.

 

[Lexicus]

And self assessment by the skilled trends the unconfident side of the Dun-Krug; or, experts who don’t know they are such.

I think there may be a horseshoe pattern here, where the y-axis is modesty and the x-axis is expertise. Experts will tend to under-assess themselves but with real mastery comes the ability to accurately self-assess.

 

[Peuri]

Honestly I feel like I'm just regressing year by year, but I've got a master's degree in the history of ideas and science. That doesn't bring much expertise, other than writing important sounding BS if need be. Expertise would come in further study, but I'm too much of a procrastinator for that, unfortunately.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Honestly I feel like I'm just regressing year by year, but I've got a master's degree in the history of ideas and science. That doesn't bring much expertise, other than writing important sounding BS if need be. Expertise would come in further study, but I'm too much of a procrastinator for that, unfortunately.

Compared to me, dear procrastinator, I am sure you are a mere dabbler. In that, *I* am the expert.

 

[Hygro]

No, I am Procrastinus.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

No, I am Procrastinus.

I will get around to supporting my claim later.

 

[Takhisis]

I will get around to supporting my claim later.

We can wait.

 

[Akka]

You realize that the REAL master of procrastination will never actually bother to come defend his title and always put it off for later ?

 

[cardgame]

I read things and I pay attention. In fairness to others who do the same, that was honed by my mom giving me an incredible early education as a child, which gave me a huge head start. Aside from earlier-than-usual development, I was supplied with Eyewitness science books, the USBORNE book of knowledge, etc. and regular visits to the library. I skipped the first grade because I already knew the contents. The STAR (iirc, that was its name) reading system estimated my reading skill to be 12th grade when I was in 3rd. That probably says more about the test than me, but still. Such a foundation enables me to see the patterns that make up life.

edit: so I know I'm coming off as super arrogant here, that's whatever, it's fine. Just wanted to add that I also felt like one of the dumbest people in the room when I got to college and was actually specifically in a scholarship group with people who had the same or higher ACT scores. So I'm not that arrogant.

 

[rah]

I would be willing to bet that the average reading level of people that post here when they entered third grade was higher than the norm.
I too was an early reader.

 

[Lexicus]

I too was an early reader.

I'm not sure I was an 'early' reader, but I was certainly reading at a higher level faster than most or all of my classmates. I remember in 5th grade we had to do a book report, while most kids in my class did young adult novels I did mine on an academic history of the Cold War. I don't remember what book it was but I'm guessing it was probably pro-American propaganda, my early history self-education consisted of reading a lot of pro-American and pro-Western propaganda. It wasn't until middle school that I became...subversive.

 

[AmazonQueen]

I was a slow reader until the end of infants. I got some extra help at school and my reading took off.

 

[downtown]

The older I get the less "expertise" I feel like I actually have, which I suppose is a mark of maturity. I think I understand the nuts and bolts of my industry (media) relatively well, and I wrote a book on college football history, but the more I study and the longer I work, the more I realize there's so much more that I don't know, even in related fields that I thought I understood well.

My job requires me to read an awful lot but I'm not sure I'd even call that "expertise".

 

[Kyriakos]

I am probably the leading authority on the war (stalemate) between two robotic alien factions raging on a comet in deep space. My source is a dream i saw.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I pay attention and have a good memory. My personal interests align with what I do for work which is a powerful (and fortunate) combination for me. I work hard to learn but mostly I am just lucky that I can do a thing I find personally fulfilling and that it comes with the bonus of a good living. Even when I was making sub sandwiches for work without a GED, I was a huge space nerd.