A Humorous Look at Expertise

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’ve talked about expertise before HERE, asking the questions what is expertise and how do you know when you have enough of it to teach something to others.

But I recently stumbled upon a friend’s post from 2018 on the topic, and as always Barb Taub manages to make her point while also making you laugh.

Her post is about a potter on the Isle of Arran, where she lives part of the time. I went to this pottery while visiting her in 2019, and I came home with a sugar bowl that I love and a whole new respect for a truly expert potter. (Sadly, this gentleman passed away last year.)

Check out her post, The Clay is Free, for a chuckle and a tidbit of wisdom about expertise, as she tells the story of ordering two pots for her kitchen utensils — and “ten minutes, plus decades of expertise later,” he’d produced two lovely pots.

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Posted by Kassandra Lamb. Kassandra is a retired psychotherapist turned mystery writer. She is the author of the Kate Huntington psychological mysteries, set in her native Maryland, and the Marcia Banks and Buddy cozy mysteries, set in Central Florida. Plus she has started a new police procedural series, also set in Florida—The C.o.P. on the Scene mysteries. And she writes romantic suspense under the pen name of Jessica Dale.

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