Steven Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is dealing with experts.

Why use experts?

Well, one of the time-honored ways of saving time is to learn from experience someone else's.

We turn to experts to learn what to do.

We love the idea of experts.

We love to believe there's someone out there who has everything we want in life.

Not only do they have everything,

but they know exactly what steps will bring us to the same land of milk and honey they live in.

There are only two problems.

First, milk and honey just is not

the delectable taste treat you might think. And second, experts aren't even starting from the

same place you are. They aren't going where you're going. They don't like what you like and what

they did may not work in your world. Not only that, they're telling you what they think

worked. Maybe they did everything

wrong and succeeded in spite of themselves. So-called financial maestro Alan Greenspan just said

maybe he was wrong for, oh, 35 years, oops, his little mistake is costing us trillions and global

financial collapse. Experts aren't all they're cracked up

to be. In school, there were right answers, and if we did the same things the teachers did,

we would get the same answers. That works when you're learning basic skills, but for bigger questions,

the answers change, the paths change, and most life and self-help experts aren't necessarily

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