| No matter how unexpert we may be, we all wish we | | | | lot of information about the art of the period. However, |
| could be authority figures. I think it would be wonderful | | | | to expect him to also be a connoisseur of modern art |
| to have people run to you each time that they | | | | is expecting a little too much. |
| encounter a problem. Then, you can sit down wisely, | | | | Similarly, it is unreasonable to expect a mortgage |
| ponder over their problems, and give them the answer | | | | consultant to be exceptionally well-versed in the |
| that they are looking for. Well, it may not be all that | | | | fluctuations taking place in the share markets. He may |
| easy to metamorphose into an expert. It requires | | | | have a decent amount of information on of the current |
| years of study, and years of experience. Six months | | | | market situation. However, it is not necessary that he |
| working in a clothes shop won't turn you into the | | | | have an indepth knowledge of all the going-ons in the |
| fashion messiah. | | | | market. |
| The majority of us lack the discipline to become | | | | And what about psychics? A lot of people claim to |
| experts at a particular topic. We largely prefer to be | | | | have psychic abilities. Yet, only a few of them can truly |
| jacks of all trades and masters of none. Not that it is a | | | | be said to have perfected the art of giving good |
| problem to try to be knowledgeable about only the | | | | psychic readings. So anyone who wants a true |
| basic concepts of a variety of subjects. However, the | | | | reading goes to those experts only. |
| result of all this is that somewhere along the way, we | | | | I would love to be an expert in Java or C++ or some |
| lose out on turning into an expert. We can repair a | | | | other programming language. However, that would |
| fuse, fill out forms, and provide counselling to others | | | | take up a lot of time and energy -- effort that I am not |
| who need advice. However, few of us non-experts | | | | ready to put in at this point of time. So if I have a |
| can reach beyond and obtain a level of expertise that | | | | problem (and this is not just limited to programming |
| the common folk lack. | | | | languages), the easiest thing would be to turn to an |
| Even experts lack the knowledge to talk about every | | | | expert and get him/her to help me solve it. There really |
| subject in the world. A professor of History, for | | | | is no point in hassling myself by searching everywhere |
| example, may be a walking encyclopedia when it | | | | for answers when I can make life so much simpler by |
| comes to the things of the past. He may also have a | | | | finding an expert. |