Yes, Einstein was not a beginner quote unquote when he developed his theory of relativity,

but he definitely had that beginner's mindset, certainly to the extent that he was willing to throw out

what was the conventional way of doing science and come up with a much more powerful explanation

for how the universe works.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo.

On this episode, we're talking with the head of editorial here at the Jordan Harbinger show,

Gabriel Mizrahi. This guy, you know, you've heard of him. He's in the deep dives. If I were smarter

and more articulate, this would be my voice. But since I'm not, I rely on Gabriel. And he's

awesome at this stuff. He really takes a lot of the content that we have in our heads here.

And in his head, and he makes it into just super awesome content. As you know, he creates a lot

of the products here. He helps create a lot of the deep dive content. And he helps create the

posts that you read from me online. And he's going to be creating a lot more in the future as well.

But today, we're talking about why you should be an amateur. In most areas of our lives, we hunger

to improve. We do more, we learn more, we grow more, we acquire more, all in the pursuit of

surmounting our ignorance and developing an expertise we can use to advance our lives in our

careers. And we know success requires hard work and a body of experience. So we naturally aim to

become masters of our jobs, our crafts, our lives. But we'll see using a couple of stories here that

we're going to illustrate. There can be downsides to expertise experts tend to lead with experience

rather than common sense. I've been guilty of that. The more that experience delivers good results,

the more we come to rely on technique and convention rather than insight and intuition. So we rely on

what worked before as opposed to what could work or needs to work now. Experience in other words,

both helps us and blinds us to possibilities by becoming great. We can actually be in danger of

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