Well, leading authority means you ARE the best in a particular field, while expert merely means you have expertise in a field, so that logic of it sounding better is really....well, weird. Guy~
I may be wrong, and it might be weird, but I don't need to be called an expert just to boost my ego. A job title suits me fine.
You have got this soooooo wrong You have got this soooooo wrong it ain't funny!!! Why does the title "expert" bother you so? I do not call myself an expert to boost my ego or anything else - my ego is through the roof with or without coins. Being a expert on Lincoln cents is not a job it's passion and passion in a subject is another way to say "expert". If I wanted a job I would go work at the food store and not be an expert cause I ain't never worked at no food store. There are many experts in every field, hobby and persute known to man. I don't need to be called an "expert" the title comes form good ole common work and study. It's fairly obvious you are not an expert because if you were "you would know it". If you want to become an "expert" many people on here can certainly help you do that including me - I would be glad to. And to the guy that said "your not an expert until you know everthing about a subject" - that's not an expert, that's a dead man - no one every knows everthing about any subject. One more thing, one of the most true things I ever learned. "you know when you know" plus "you don't know what you don't know". If either of these phrases is not completly understood in an instant then I can see why you are having so much trouble with this. Keep comming back!!!
there I ruined the expert drought...just don't ask me anything about coins...as I am busy eating 16 hr simmered chili O YEA!:goof: (I saw something I could track mud on and dirty up and I did it...)
Damn dude, don't blow a cork. The again, my next post might really get to you. It's about egotistical braggarts.
Simple to me an - expert is someone that knows more about a topic than I do. Even if they do not consider themselves experts. And job titles are a joke in this day and age.
LOL - very true. I have been at the same place since 1982, doing about the samething - I can't count the number of job titles I have had. Here are two of them - Industrial Engineer and Lead IT Project Manager. Keep in mind - I have been doing roughly the same type thing all this time. I keep telling myself - 5 more years.
In my eyes, when you get folks from around the country approaching you for information that you specialize in then you are deemed an expert in that specialty. Otherwise advanced learner, intermediate or beginner seems to fit well for most.
I'm sick of the word expert since nobody really is but they claim they are or someone else claims they are. Just because you have a lot of knowledge doesn't make you better or more deservent than others.
I respectfully disagree. One is not born with knowledge, nor can inherit it. It must be collected and assimilated, and it takes time and effort. The effort of doing so is what tends to make one better and more deserving than one who doesn't bother to do so. IMO. Jim
Well put. A person who doesn't work to accumulate knowledge should not expect results as good as those who put in the effort to accumulate knowledge. I'm not sure where the concept that everyone is equally deserving regardless of effort comes from.
I do not consider myself an "expert" in any part of the field of numismatics. I do, however have a higher than average knowledge of some fields that I choose to specialise in and I am learning more each day. I do take offense to people that claim to be experts because "I've been doing this for 15 years". If you have been doing something wrong for the last 15 years all that makes you is an expert at doing something wrong. Time is not the only factor, one must become educated and experienced in that time. Am I an expert in numismastics?...no. Am I an expert in telling if a contractor has built a house correctly? I had better be, its my job. Richard
