Beware of “programs” that promise great results with little effort. My advice to the consumer, though, is to be skeptical. I get it - you need to be a marketer of yourself so you can earn a living, just like you would in any business. You can trumpet this on social media, make your own blog, post videos on YouTube of your expertness, and spout a few catch phrases. It’s not that hard.” Here’s the point of this article:In today’s world, it is so easy to become an “expert.” All you have to do is say that you are one. Think Michael Jordan coaching basketball - “Why don’t you just create some separation, fade away, and bury the 18 footer. Thanks Wikipedia!) Side Note:Interestingly enough, this had a second part which stated that HIGHLY SKILLED individuals may underestimate their relative competence and erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. The theory became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it states (as I take my index finger to the bridge of my glasses and push them up my nose): (The effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. This is a real scientific study out of Cornell in 1999. People that really DO have a lot of knowledge on the topic know that it’s way more complicated than it appears.This is not just a funny cartoon graph.
Do you remember the Harvard bar scene in Good Will Hunting where Will just takes the guy apart about history and economic theory? It’s worth a Google and it’s a great illustration of this topic.
People that really DO have a lot of knowledge on the topic know that it’s way more complicated than it appears. They maybe have seen one documentary or watched cable news for a little while. If you do like to talk politics, you understand that A LOT of people are very uninformed about the topic, but very eager to give you their opinion. I have some knowledge, but not even close to what I need to fully understand the argument. Mostly, it’s because I think I have just enough knowledge to be overconfident about it. Partly because I know that my arguments aren’t going to change that person’s thinking and ultimately we’ll end up in the same place that we started (only more mad at each other). In this election year, I DO NOT discuss politics with people. This graph says it all, but let’s think about the real world examples where we see this play out. You can only see it once you’ve been on the other side. The most interesting thing about “Mount Stupid” is that when you’re there, you don’t know it. But I climbed “Mount Stupid” and spent a good amount of time there, telling everyone the right way to do things, before tumbling down the other side. Things that I had learned were now outdated and proven false.
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I didn’t really - I knew a lot of science, but not how to apply it. When I first came out of college, I thought I knew a lot.
I like to bring out this graph when I reflect on my early years in the business. It’s amazing how much different I am now than when I first started.
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From very young kids to the elderly from the professional athlete to those just trying to walk up stairs without feeling like they ran a marathon from the extremely fit to those battling chronic illness. Add the 5+ years in college studying exercise science and I’ve spent almost half of my life doing this - I’m extremely fortunate to do something I love and make a career out of it! Over the years, I’ve had incredible mentors, read books, attended conferences, done research, networked with tremendous coaches and practitioners, obtained certifications.but most of all, I’ve worked with a lot of different clients. ConfuciusI’m starting to think that I’m getting old! When I think about my career, it shocks me that I’ve been in the health and fitness world for over 10 years. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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