In conversation with predominately adults (older than myself) I discovered that it is very hard for some to be open minded, and this has no racial specification. What I have found as I continue to learn and grow mentally, spiritually and emotionally is that wisdom has no age definition. Because every individual's walk on this earth is different you cannot define someone else's wisdom or lack there of by what you feel they have not experienced. What I believe is that if some people took the time to look past the physical and allow themselves to learn from people you would be surprised at what life lesson someone can share with you that will encourage you to be better than you were yesterday. But of course in order to do that you have to be "open minded".
I too feel, especially as a writer and believer of continual growth and development, that there is no point in labeling someone as an expert. With expert being defined according to Google as, "a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area." I understand that when you are truly passionate about something you learn everything there is to learn and live for that passion everyday, but when you consider the idea of evolution and continual growth and development you are only or can consider yourself an "expert" about a particular item only at a specific point in time. For that matter it somewhat contradicts the idea of expertise, as the individual knows all/everything there is to know about a particular idea, item, subject etc. Additionally if you consider the fact that you are human and we base the truth or evidence of things that we "know" to be true we assume at that point that we are "all knowing" which we are not. And in that case we are not an expert of anything because we only know what we know or what society claims to be true about a particular idea.
Because we live in such a diverse world and because most of us have not had the pleasure to experience every aspect of this world every minute of every day we are merely making assumptions based on what we know or believe to be true. And as humans we have to consider the fact that we too are bias. Bias formed from individualism, culture, tradition, perception, etc. When we interpret truths based on what research and studies conducted and lead by ourselves that yield data that we interpret ourselves, for that matter we are shaping the ideas we want others to believe we know everything about when in actually two individuals could conduct the same experiment and have two totally different outlooks. Does this make sense? I could be beating a dead horse here but I want to encourage people to stop being so closed minded and read, research and think for ourselves. We don't have to rely on the "experts" to do what we can do for ourselves. At the same time we have to be open to learning things from others and not close ourselves off to growth and development. That is the foundation of evolution, aside from diversity.
This message may sound contradictory to some but the point is to learn from others not rely heavily on the ideas of one man to dictate your own ideas and be the basis of what you deem to be true.
I too feel, especially as a writer and believer of continual growth and development, that there is no point in labeling someone as an expert. With expert being defined according to Google as, "a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area." I understand that when you are truly passionate about something you learn everything there is to learn and live for that passion everyday, but when you consider the idea of evolution and continual growth and development you are only or can consider yourself an "expert" about a particular item only at a specific point in time. For that matter it somewhat contradicts the idea of expertise, as the individual knows all/everything there is to know about a particular idea, item, subject etc. Additionally if you consider the fact that you are human and we base the truth or evidence of things that we "know" to be true we assume at that point that we are "all knowing" which we are not. And in that case we are not an expert of anything because we only know what we know or what society claims to be true about a particular idea.
Because we live in such a diverse world and because most of us have not had the pleasure to experience every aspect of this world every minute of every day we are merely making assumptions based on what we know or believe to be true. And as humans we have to consider the fact that we too are bias. Bias formed from individualism, culture, tradition, perception, etc. When we interpret truths based on what research and studies conducted and lead by ourselves that yield data that we interpret ourselves, for that matter we are shaping the ideas we want others to believe we know everything about when in actually two individuals could conduct the same experiment and have two totally different outlooks. Does this make sense? I could be beating a dead horse here but I want to encourage people to stop being so closed minded and read, research and think for ourselves. We don't have to rely on the "experts" to do what we can do for ourselves. At the same time we have to be open to learning things from others and not close ourselves off to growth and development. That is the foundation of evolution, aside from diversity.
This message may sound contradictory to some but the point is to learn from others not rely heavily on the ideas of one man to dictate your own ideas and be the basis of what you deem to be true.
