What is an expert, really?

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Expert or aggregator? My dark secret.

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

It's been an ongoing debate that I hear coming up over and over again, especially from people who are professionals out there that have made a living in a particular area.

And then they go on to, you know, teach about that particular area, and carry themselves as experts as they should.

They have background in it, they have success in it, and then they go about teaching it.

This has always held up very highly and more higher above somebody that does not necessarily have the same experience.

This is a really common thing that goes back and forth and I can never quite pin down because I could always tell you that me personaly. There's a whole lot that I talk about that I do not necessarily have direct experience with.

But the real thing that's a problem is when people pretend to be something they're not, when they pretend to have a whole lot of success and a whole lot of things going for them that they don't or tend to have experiences that they've never had.

That's a real problem.

That's fraud on a certain level. You've got to be really, really careful those types of people, especially those that really prop themselves up, right?

Expertise, the nature of expertise is an interesting thing. Because what is an expert, who defines an expert, who qualifies an expert, doesn't mean you have to have a degree doesn't mean you have to have a specific experience, How much experience do you need to have?

And all those things are extremely subjective.

These ideas, they're very subjective.

So but it's always been something that's kind of I've pondered about and never been able to quite pin down. But I'm going to give you two historical figures here from I would say the success slash self help industry, if you will.

These two examples are two people that are relatively well known by people who know their history, or are somewhat well read when it comes to success.

The first one would be Napoleon Hill, and the second one would be Earl Nightingale.

These two guys had, well, let's talk about Napoleon Hill. First. He went and wrote, thinking grow rich and a whole lot of other books. But that was his, his magnum opus, that was the one that got him.

Absolutely famous.

To this day continues to sell millions and millions of copies of this book. And it's one of those things.

We'll get back to that in a second, but let's talk about Earl Nightingale.

Earl Nightingale has a whole lot of material out there starting an entire company that not just promotes his material, but other people's material. Nightingale Conant.

He actually passed away in 1989. His company lives on his name lives on the legends of these people live on.

What were these people actually experts in?

This is this is kind of interesting, because I've heard recordings from other people that discuss this in and I just recently heard an older recording from Dan Kennedy, the martyr who's absolutely marketing expert has great background in this.

There was a time when he wasn't, but held himself as an expert. But that's another story.

He amazing,