{"id":3208,"date":"2020-09-07T01:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2020-08-22T07:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:57:50","slug":"explain-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/09\/explain-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain Yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the bigger compliments in the knowledge world in which we live is when someone wants to know what I know.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to explain myself to you! I am a grand exalted expert in expertise and all grand exalted things!&#8221; said a frustrated expert when told, &#8220;Explain yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been the grand exalted expert who was told to explain myself to those less-than-grand and un-exalted non-experts of the world. Hmmmf! The nerve of them to not accept my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foolish me. They were complimenting me, and it was probably an undeserved compliment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They wanted to know what I knew and what I was doing. I had created knowledge that they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does anything get any better than that in this knowledge-worker world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips One of the bigger compliments in the knowledge world in which we live is when someone wants to know what I know. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to explain myself to you! I am a grand exalted expert in expertise and all grand exalted things!&#8221; said a frustrated expert when told, &#8220;Explain yourself.&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,106,257,102],"tags":[362,220,258,217],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expertise","category-knowledge","category-respect","category-teaching","tag-expertise","tag-knowledge","tag-respect","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}