Experts Drive Change

[In the Beginning – V]

I know 100% of me, which makes me the world's top expert on myself.

Wait.

When I accept that I’m not the only person in the universe, I learn there are things about me, say 10% for those that like to quantify, that I don’t know about myself that others see. If I’m willing to receive their input, I can grow in my self-understanding. (Maybe I only know 90% of me.)

Hold on.

But then—and I don’t know when it happens for most people, but for me it was in my late 20’s—I started meeting parts of myself way beneath the surface. Stuff that’s repressed, wounds that have been “forgotten”, dreams that were dashed and left on the side of the road of my youth. And it doesn’t take much, but after a few encounters with this part of me, I realized there is an inner universe that can be forever discovered. (Perhaps I don’t know as much as I thought I knew about me.)

I’m still an expert on me.
No one comes close.

An expert is not measured by how much you know but by your willingness to keep learning. An expert keeps digging, keeps discovering.

Salespeople try to pass as experts. Pundits do too. You can spot a real expert by their humble admission of how much they don’t know. And it’s the genuine experts that drive change.

Friends, we need more real experts . . . we need more hungry students.