4 Things Real Experts Don’t Do
Give up these bad habits if you want to build real expertise
Scroll through your Facebook and Instagram timelines. Most of the sponsored posts will be a person promising to teach you how to build your dream life.
Your LinkedIn feed will be peppered with status updates that resemble personal hagiographies.
Many people want to be seen as experts today. With a positioning like that come perks like followers, fame, money, and status. People do all sorts of things that help them get seen as experts.
But there’s a deeper truth about genuine expertise that most people miss:
Expertise gets built by what you don’t do as much as what you do.
It has never been simpler to become an expert. The internet has brought down all barriers like the Berlin Wall. We no longer need deep pockets or connections higher-up to share information or insights.
On the flip side, we’ve landed in a situation where the internet is overflowing with so-called experts. Such people position themselves as experts but are far from the real deal
- They repeatedly show off their lifestyle, which is often a facade.
- They humblebrag about their…
