I'm not so sure that I see your point. You seem to be yelling that you agree with him, but without understanding that you are agreeing with him. If you read a little more carefully you will see that, according to what he is saying, the attitude of being an Expert is exactly the attitude that stops you from learning.

For example, I don't know if you know who Woody Herman was, but he was considered to be one of the greatest claranette players ever to live and at the age of 76, after he had been playing for about 65 years, he stopped taking lessons, quite simply because he went into the hospital and died.

So here is a man whom we may consider and Expert in his field, and yet he continued to learn new things about his craft up untill 5 weeks before he died. When asked about his accoplishments, and called a Master of his instrament, he would comment that he hadden't mastered anything, and was still taking lessons. What the comment setting all of this off is saying is exactly this:

The very moment that you think of yourself as an Expert is the very moment that any expertness you had vanishes

Without realizing it you are agreeing with him.

lm

In reply to RE: RE: Never be an expert Programmer by little_mistress
in thread Never be an expert Programmer by RichardH

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