Most people feel it's pompous or egotistical to refer to themselves as experts, but clearly the world is FULL of experts (except in Washington D.C.)
I like to think each of us has expertise in some area, and I think answering this should be a reminder of your self-worth.
2007-07-05 04:57:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very nice question.
I have become an expert in creating hats based on a photograph or well done illustration. IF you can find a picture of it (clear one) I can make it!
But I'm also pretty good at going off of a description too anymore.
How did I become so? I worked for a living history museum, and one of my first "sites" was the millinery - the lady's hatshop. So I learned how to make them, and then I learned that basically, you have to go off of the illustrations for the time in order to have a clue how the hats looked. A couple years later, I became the supervisor of the site, and then started my own business making hats.
Thanks for a positive, non argumentative question! whoo hoo!
2007-07-05 05:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like the term "expert" either, for the same reason you say. Expertise comes from exposure over time, repetition, and seeking out knowledge in a particular field. Conferring with others in the same field and bouncing opinions off of one another will also enhance expertise.
2007-07-05 05:03:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if not expert, I'm at least extremely knowledgeable about cigars, vintage Harleys, carpentery, organic gardening, weight training, modernist literature ("between the Wars," "Lost Generation," Hemingway), Viking Age history, particularly Icelandic history, Northern European mythology and pre-xian beliefs, mead-making, architecture, famous interior designers, and, well, sex.
I like knowledge, and I like skills. I've had the time and inclination to accumulate a broad range of both.
2007-07-05 05:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work in I.T., and have for 15 years doing hardware and software support. I wouldn't call myself an expert in that area, but I know more than the average computer user.
I also am a fountain of useless music trivia.
2007-07-05 05:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by Deke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being a connoisseur of professional boxing.
I remember dates of fights, titles on the line, have over a 1000 boxing magazines, over a 1000 videotaped fights.
And I don't make a dime on my passion. Good job on my part, eh?
Good luck
2007-07-05 07:02:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an "expert" at comparative abstract philosophy... ok thats just my ego. I am an expert at End-of-Life electronic waste and its processing methods
2007-07-05 05:01:20 · answer #6 · answered by dougness86 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have expertise at motorcycling, investigation work, and cunnilingus.
Practice makes perfect - in all cases.
2007-07-05 05:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medicare coverage. I have to be. It is part of my job. Even the people at Medicare cannot answer my questions.
2007-07-05 05:02:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooking, healthful living and I know quite a bit about spiritual matters...
2007-07-05 05:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no false modesty... at learning foreign languages... Just a pity I can't make a living and learn at the same time....
salam
2007-07-05 05:00:53 · answer #10 · answered by yunaaisha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋