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Sven Nilsen

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Re: What makes someone an expert with regards to GCA?
« Reply #75 on: January 25, 2015, 08:41:36 PM »
Sven, Martin - your perspective is valid of course, and defensible. But is that how we really think about expertise in other fields? If I asked you about the world's leading expert on brain surgery, would you break it down into component parts and suggest that we also determine/highlight the person who handles the anesthetics, and the journalist who wrote a history about the early days, and the briliant young intern who assists?
Peter

Peter:

Now you've defined what you're looking for.  In your last post you didn't.

The answer would change if you were looking for the guy that knows the most about how the practice of brain surgery has evolved since the first hole was drilled in some poor guys head back in 1485, instead of the guy you're going to hire to get the clot out of your cerebellum in 2015.

Its still all about context.

Sven

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Patrick_Mucci

Re: What makes someone an expert with regards to GCA?
« Reply #76 on: January 25, 2015, 08:42:01 PM »
Expertise comes from study and mastery from real world experience.  I suppose battle tested experience.

Among others, Tom Doak has expertise.  Mike Young has expertise and Brad Klein has expertise.  Lebron James does too. All worked very hard to develop expertise from a good talent base.

Never mistake passion for expertise.  Experts can have passion (and usually do), but non experts can have passion without expertise.

99% of people with opinions are passionate to some degree, experts are usually the other 1%. 

I wouldn't hire a person passionate about roofing to shingle my house.  I'd call a guy that knows it cold, and has done it before.


Chris,

Chances are high that the "guy who knows it cold", is passionate about his work.

I don't know that I ever encountered an expert in any field who wasn't passionate about his work.



Tim Martin

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Re: What makes someone an expert with regards to GCA?
« Reply #77 on: January 25, 2015, 08:54:55 PM »
R u coming south in April?


I still hasn't snowed!!!

Ian-That was the kiss of death as now we are supposed to get two feet in New England. Thanks. ;)

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