How to Not Be an Expert

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1. how to not be an expert
   

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2. @antiheroine
   

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3. what is an expert?
   

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7. “Authority is supposedly grounded
   in wisdom, but I could see from a
   very early age that authority was
   only a system of control and it didn't
   have any inherent wisdom. I quickly
   realised that you either became a
   power or you were crushed.”
   JOE STRUMMER
   

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8. how we make experts
   

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9. otherwise known as
   education
   

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11. “You don't necessarily have to have
    talent, you can just get up and do
    something and see where it takes
    you. I always tell girls who say they
    want to start a band but don't have
    any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I
    can carry a tune, but anyone who
    picks up a bass can figure it out. You
    don't have to have magic unicorn
    powers.”
    KATHLEEN HANNA
    

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12. things I’ve
    learned so far
    

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13. if you teach someone a
    thing, she’ll know a thing;
    or, you can teach her how
    to learn things and she can
    learn lots of things herself.
    

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14. education is primarily
    about teaching people to
    get out of their own ways.
    

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15. unlearning old expectations
    is more difficult and more
    terrifying than learning new
    information.
    

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16. anti-experts out
    in the world
    

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18. “Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a
    malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was
    never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I
    felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared
    a vagrant optimism that some of us were making
    real progress, that we had taken an honest road,
    and that the best of us would inevitably make it
    over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark
    suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost
    cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves
    along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension
    between these two poles — a restless idealism on
    one hand and a sense of impending doom on the
    other — that kept me going.”
    HUNTER S. THOMPSON
    

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19. my experts are
    questioners and
    searchers and explorers
    and learners and
    beginners and fuck-ups
    and risk-takers and punks
    and freedom fighters and
    rebels with causes.
    

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20. @antiheroine
    

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