I've seen a number of different articles regarding decentralized authority lately.
Mark Joyner recently put out a report called, "Rise of the Author". It's about how you're automatically an expert if you publish a traditional book. He says you ought to do it soon because books are going out of style. But only do it if you want to be famous (probably not at all his point - that's just what I got out of it).
According to Doctor Douglas, patients are self diagnosing and not accepting some doctors' medication based solutions. Some doctors are starting to even fire their patients.
When asked about his opinion regarding Neuro-linguistic Programming, Harlan Kilstein said it's dead. He feels no advances have been made recently so that's that.
Ryan Healy thinks any hypnotist you work with ought to have at least as much training as is required of barbers. No doubt the thinking is that the inside of your head is much more important than the outside.
And by now, you're probably familiar with Michel Fortin's report called, "Death of the Sales Letter."
What do all these threads have in common? They all suggest that the layman is dying if he's not already dead.
How does the layman die?
When we talk about a layman, it's with the assumption that people can be divided into two categories: the expert and the layman. The other assumption is that if you're not an expert, your work is less valuable. In the academic community, you only have a valid opinion with a PhD.
What's happening is that the internet is blurring the line between expert and layman. I recently met a financial planner who's calibrated his NLP embedded commands to a high degree and sometimes uses them on his clients. How did he get so good? From reading books and practicing. He wasn't of the opinion he needed an expert to tell him he was ready.
This isn't to say that there is no place for the wise and experienced among us to practice our crafts. And there's no question that all the different establishments held together by experts will continue on for some time yet. It simply means that if one person can do something, another can too. You don't have to be an expert. NLP modeling can expedite that process but someone way back in the day had to figure out how to light a fire on their own too the first time.
It reminds me of my training as a medic. We finished our EMT basic certification the first 6 weeks of the 4 month training course but our senior drill sergeant became famous for constantly telling us we weren't medics yet. We were only about 45% medic. And then about 80% medic. And on and on. Finally, after graduation, he said we were 100% medic and competent enough in our skills to go out there and do something.
The good news is that you don't have to wait to be christened an expert before you get going. The not-as-good news is that the upcoming generation of buyers and sellers don't recognize the same marks of authority as previous generations. Keep in mind that Generation Y might as well mean, "Why?" as in, "Why should I listen to you at all about anything even if some people think you are a so-called expert?" Credentials won't go as far as they used to.
I'm glad for it. There's more opportunity for those of us willing to get up to speed.
Let's toast to the death of the layman. - 2364
Mark Joyner recently put out a report called, "Rise of the Author". It's about how you're automatically an expert if you publish a traditional book. He says you ought to do it soon because books are going out of style. But only do it if you want to be famous (probably not at all his point - that's just what I got out of it).
According to Doctor Douglas, patients are self diagnosing and not accepting some doctors' medication based solutions. Some doctors are starting to even fire their patients.
When asked about his opinion regarding Neuro-linguistic Programming, Harlan Kilstein said it's dead. He feels no advances have been made recently so that's that.
Ryan Healy thinks any hypnotist you work with ought to have at least as much training as is required of barbers. No doubt the thinking is that the inside of your head is much more important than the outside.
And by now, you're probably familiar with Michel Fortin's report called, "Death of the Sales Letter."
What do all these threads have in common? They all suggest that the layman is dying if he's not already dead.
How does the layman die?
When we talk about a layman, it's with the assumption that people can be divided into two categories: the expert and the layman. The other assumption is that if you're not an expert, your work is less valuable. In the academic community, you only have a valid opinion with a PhD.
What's happening is that the internet is blurring the line between expert and layman. I recently met a financial planner who's calibrated his NLP embedded commands to a high degree and sometimes uses them on his clients. How did he get so good? From reading books and practicing. He wasn't of the opinion he needed an expert to tell him he was ready.
This isn't to say that there is no place for the wise and experienced among us to practice our crafts. And there's no question that all the different establishments held together by experts will continue on for some time yet. It simply means that if one person can do something, another can too. You don't have to be an expert. NLP modeling can expedite that process but someone way back in the day had to figure out how to light a fire on their own too the first time.
It reminds me of my training as a medic. We finished our EMT basic certification the first 6 weeks of the 4 month training course but our senior drill sergeant became famous for constantly telling us we weren't medics yet. We were only about 45% medic. And then about 80% medic. And on and on. Finally, after graduation, he said we were 100% medic and competent enough in our skills to go out there and do something.
The good news is that you don't have to wait to be christened an expert before you get going. The not-as-good news is that the upcoming generation of buyers and sellers don't recognize the same marks of authority as previous generations. Keep in mind that Generation Y might as well mean, "Why?" as in, "Why should I listen to you at all about anything even if some people think you are a so-called expert?" Credentials won't go as far as they used to.
I'm glad for it. There's more opportunity for those of us willing to get up to speed.
Let's toast to the death of the layman. - 2364
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