Which one are you?
Oh, you’re an expert?…you know absolutely everything there was, is, and will be about your specialty! Wow!
- You could write the definitive textbook, and speak off-the-cuff at virtually any venue on the subject for which you’re an expert?
- Furthermore: you obviously feel comfortable with people calling you an expert. (BTW, I’m treating the word “guru” synomously, here).
- You unabashedly accept speaking engagements, paychecks, and invitations to do teleseminars, webinars, and write books in your area of expertise.
I’m being sarcastic and cynical here to make a point.
Later this week, I’ll be contributing my part to a 3-part webinar on the value of social media for voice actors. I am no expert. I doubt there are ANY experts in social media, although many like to say they are, in promotional materials.
I more like to think I’m a STUDENT of social media. It teaches me. In fact, to my way of thinking there is one immutable word that stands between expert and student.
HUMILITY.
Sometimes I like to think I’m an expert, and then I get blindsided, T-boned, or undercut by someone or something from out in left field that shows me how little I really DO know. Ever had that happen? Uh-huh. ‘Thought so.
So if you are so wonderful that you’ve actually paid money to hear what Terry Daniel, Trish Basanyi and Dave Courvoisier have to say about what they THINK they know about Social Media…then it is my responsibility to do all in my power to tell you all that social media has TAUGHT me.
But expert? Huh-uh. Student.
CourVO
More info on the webinar at VoiceOverXtra
