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I'm sure everyone has worked with someone who has memorized a lot, but doesn't know how to do much. Their productivity is limited. There are also people with
by adekok 10y ago
I'm sure everyone has worked with someone who has memorized a lot, but doesn't know how to do much. Their productivity is limited.
There are also people with innate "know how", who can get things done without much background knowledge. They just know how things work.
My $0.02 is that experts have both of the above skills. They know a lot more than average people, and have better techniques for doing things.
My experience has been that once you reach a certain level of expertise, it's better to "know how", than to know things. For the software I've written, I just forget about the minor details, and have to look them up again. The details aren't important, and just aren't worth remembering.
In contrast, remembering the problems and solutions is much more important. The solutions can be applied to multiple problems in a way that simple "memorization of facts" cannot.
- rimantas 10y agoBeing expert means having ability to recognise certain patterns and having skills to apply then. So yes details don't matter much if pattern recognition works fine (and it's ability to work is in some degree dependant on ignoring non-essential details). Which details don't matter is aldo learned through experience. There is a danger of miscategorizing if one gets too confindent and sloppy.
- Digit-Al 10y agoYeah. I used to work with a guy who mainly knew databases, but also had to do some C# as part of his job. He did loads of MS certifications, just to have them on his CV, but was clueless and usually had to ask me how to do anything more than the most simple programming tasks.