Why people talk about topics they donβt fully grasp I will never understand
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Talk with certainty**
I would think it's because It's basically impossible to convey nuance concisely.
in pretty much any medium of knowledge exhange. Except sitting down and having a long conversation about it.
In a podcast, for example, an expert only has an hour to share his expertise. Under the assumption that, on average, podcasts are an hour long and the expert only appears on one podcast episode.
So the person watching takes the certainty that an experts has earned and applies it to when they (the viewer) goes and opines in their network.
i tend to not talk with certainty when I donβt fully grasp a subject and I know I donβt fully grasp it when I only have 5-10 hours into it, thatβs when most are at their peak of confidence with that subject.. but if they wouldnβt stop learning there, theyβd see at the 24-36hr mark thereβs a ton of complexity n their confidence diminishes as it should, then from there the real learning takes place in my honest opinion
I donβt trust the βexpertsβ
self proclaimed experts sure, but donβt talk to your neighbor about a surgery instead of your surgeon
Iβm not a surgeon but I have been operated on almost a dozen times.
It's people who don't realize the depth of the topics they're so certain about. Those who think that parroting what they've heard counts as knowledge.
Absolutely they never get down to the complexity of topic so theyβre highly confident in the little that they know
Everyone talks about topics they don't fully grasp. With every topic you start knowing nothing. Then you talk about it, while knowning little to nothing about it. If you're receptive, you might learn more. Or not.
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