Activating Your Inner Expert and Genius

You can be an expert simply by knowing something better than someone else.

What comes first? Expertise or being an expert?

That’s tough to answer, isn’t it?

How can you be an expert at a sport you’ve never played competitively?

At what point does one transition from proficiency to expertise?

That’s a great question and one that I don’t truly have an answer for… but I’d love to hear some perspective.

I think about some of history’s great creators like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Did they become experts after they failed tens of hundreds of times or after they succeeded more than 10 times?

It seems as though it just happened gradually and over time they became so so undeniably great that they just had to be experts and then began to be appearing as one.

Earlie James shares in his book, “The Genius Plan”

To stop being an echo and start being a voice, we must cultivate our God-given unique factors. In the book, Lead like Jesus, Ken Blanchard, and Phil Hodges list three things necessary to cultivating our unique factors: