Now I’m not sure whether the person behind the quote meant for his words to be interpreted in that fashion! But I do believe that everything that we try and do in our life, there is inevitably someone who has gone someway to achieving it. And if we use their knowledge to assist us, we will be able to achieve our thoughts and dreams that much quicker.

I like the three elements of an expert: confidence, network and education. I also agree with your view that many self-claimed ‘gurus’ only do nothing more than republishing other people findings.

I’d like to add that being an expert does not necessarily mean you have to create a new ideas. An expert is a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. Hence it is OK to use other people finding, provided that you had already master it and include your personal opinion or additional finding.

Thanks for sharing.

Reyn Aria

However I digress. In your comment you touched upon something which I left out purposely as I’m thinking about doing a separate article on the matter. That is hiring a consultant. I would go one step further and suggest to not only hire a consultant or coach, but to surround yourself with consultants and coaches. Both Jay Abraham and Eben Pagan have preached about the importance of having a mastermind group which you can tap into at any given time. It is my opinion that our ability to network with experts will increasingly become important to making us attractive to respective clients.

Thanks again for your brilliant insight!

Carlos….

This is a darn good post and I am glad I got to read it.

On the “experts”, an important lesson I am learning and have learned is from Robert Ringer who’s title, “Winning Through Intimidation” renamed “To Be or Not to Be Intimidated?: That is the Question” is the lesson of “Ladders and Leapers” which has to do with how society will show us “the ladder” that we are supposed to folllow, “the corporate ladder”, etc. But he talks of how you can “Leap” to higher understanding, better positioning of yourself and skipping “the Ladder program” altogether. One way to skip many rungs of “the ladder” is to invest in someone that has already put in the time, your expert. Earl Nightingale said this of experts, “Anyone investing 1 hour a day for one year in any subject could easily be an expert in one year.” Robert used to/maybe still does allow followers of his newsletter permission to download his revised book, I found it here http://web.archive.org/web/20070115141546/http://www.robertringer.com/TBI/TBI.pdf

If you have the money to hire a consultant, do it, skip the learning curve. If you have the time an inclination to learn it all yourself, go ahead and do it. If you want to be an expert don’t be intimidated by the gurus’ who will have you believe that “for whatever reason, you just are too ignorant to learn it yourself” that you need “their solution”. Now I’m not talking about consultants here, there is a viable need for them. Gurus’ will sell you the report that sells the better report that willl sell the best report that sells you on buying the next “piece of them… that if you don’t get immediately means you are destined to a life of ignorance and doom.”

Thanks Carlos.

Mike Feddersen

This is a darn good post and I am glad I got to read it.

On the “experts”, an important lesson I am learning and have learned is from Robert Ringer who’s title, “Winning Through Intimidation” renamed “To Be or Not to Be Intimidated?: That is the Question” is the lesson of “Ladders and Leapers” which has to do with how society will show us “the ladder” that we are supposed to folllow, “the corporate ladder”, etc. But he talks of how you can “Leap” to higher understanding, better positioning of yourself and skipping “the Ladder program” altogether. One way to skip many rungs of “the ladder” is to invest in someone that has already put in the time, your expert. Earl Nightingale said this of experts, “Anyone investing 1 hour a day for one year in any subject could easily be an expert in one year.” Robert used to/maybe still does allow followers of his newsletter permission to download his revised book, I found it here http://web.archive.org/web/20070115141546/http://www.robertringer.com/TBI/TBI.pdf

If you have the money to hire a consultant, do it, skip the learning curve. If you have the time an inclination to learn it all yourself, go ahead and do it. If you want to be an expert don’t be intimidated by the gurus’ who will have you believe that “for whatever reason, you just are too ignorant to learn it yourself” that you need “their solution”. Now I’m not talking about consultants here, there is a viable need for them. Gurus’ will sell you the report that sells the better report that willl sell the best report that sells you on buying the next “piece of them… that if you don’t get immediately means you are destined to a life of ignorance and doom.”

Thanks Carlos.

Mike Feddersen