From the course: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges

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Contribute even if you’re not an expert

Contribute even if you’re not an expert

- A real issue in our culture is that we tend to put all the emphasis on expertise and have a kind of cultural narrative that the people who contribute value around a topic are the "experts." And that's a view that's really reinforced by our educational system that says, "If you want to do something in X topic, you want to do something around history? Go get your degree in history. If you want to do something in serving kids, go get X degree." We're looking for what information do I need to absorb to be able to contribute value on that topic. And that is certainly important. And you're talking to someone who really values education and has a graduate degree, and I believe it's very important that we have those places to get expertise, and we have experts in our culture. But on any given subject, there are people contributing value as the expert, let's take, for example, let's take breast cancer. So we have our…

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