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Thanks for the elaborate answer... "When you can explain a complex topic in a way that even a child can understand it, it means that you are truly an expert."

• peter_d_sherman 6y ago
  Ah, but, I don't write "to be an expert"... <g> I write to: clarify the way I think ! So, what's the difference? ? Well you see, if: a) Someone writes something and: b) They are basically honest, at least with respect to themself, their own thoughts, in their own writings; and c) They are given a chance to review and edit and correct their own writings (in Law, we call this "Amending" something) after having written them; Then, typically, as a result of these conditions: d) They discover, and can subsequently think about, ("examine") their own self-contradictions ...which if they are subsequently thought about, and subsequently resolved (again, in thought) -- will invariably lead to better and clearer thinking... We might call this the process of "self-examination" -- through writing... I believe Socrates said something to the effect of "The unexamined life -- is not worth living". Now, I don't know if that's true or not... What I do know, is that I write to: clarify the way I think (And of course there are other reasons too, like communication, human communication... but it's not "to be an expert"... (What would I possibly gain from being "an expert", other than a title, a higher pay grade, and possibly more incompetency than the guy who's at the next pay grade higher than me? <g>)) (Oh, and sometimes I get good jokes, good humor, good comedy ideas -- from writing... but these are slag by-products of the writing process -- and not the norm...) Anyway, that's why I do it... Not "to be an expert"... "The true knowledge -- consists in knowing that one knows nothing..." -Socrates