The Thing That Makes Me Most Sad In My Work

What I See Far Too Often With Experts

I was having a discussion with a friend about an article I wrote about a few weeks back about How the Goal of Mastery is Self-Defeating.

When I wrote that article, there was a trend that I was noticing in the work that I do, that I often see.

For the way I approach my work, I try to find what Leaders are missing that can contribute to their Success.

Then I will seek out the best Experts I can find in an Industry and try to learn from them.

Usually, I try to see if they have a certification program and try to learn as directly as I can from those Experts.

But there is a trend that I often see as I do this.

I follow that Expert for a time.

Then I will walk alongside that Expert for a time as I begin to understand it more fully.

However, in many cases, I begin to walk to walk ahead of that Expert, and when I look back, they are no longer moving.

Where did they go?

It doesn’t happen with every Expert, but it happens frequently.

This is one of the things that makes me most sad in the work that I do.