Expertise

[ewt]

This is a long-due follow-up poll to this one from around a month ago.

Most of the questions in this poll come from ali_anarres, not me, although I likely would have thought of them eventually.

[Poll #870553]

Comments

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

I answered the "in contact with" question as if it was asking about the field I want to be an expert in.

The "what other areas" question was difficult. There are an almost inexhaustable supply of topics, fields and areas that I would like to become more knowledgeable on or skilled in, but does knowledge and skill automatically equate to expertise? Somewhere I feel there is a different, and for me it's the difference between being good and being up there right at the very front. An expert is something other than just very good, they're a leader, an educator, an innovator, maybe even a visionary sometimes.

(ps: mind if I link to this poll?)

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Do go ahead and link to the poll.

I don't think knowledge and skill automatically equate to expertise. I think hairyears gave a pretty good definition of expertise in response to the last poll, though it isn't faultless.