Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.
Eddie RobsonTags: faking-it expertise making-it-up
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics elitism consensus experts twitter 2011 expertise 2011-norway-attacks
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Werner HeisenbergTags: knowledge mistakes expertise
Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.
Charles DickensTags: attention nonchalance expertise
Skills are common. Talent is rare.
Colin ClarkTags: talent skills gifting expertise
We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.
Jonah LehrerThe striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.
Atul GawandeTags: bureaucracy medicine expertise
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: economics bankers recession finance experts recessions banking expertise
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: science art mind economics intellect expertise economists
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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