Episode 9

You Don't Have To Be An Expert

9 :You Don't Have To Be An Expert

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Day to day.

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I spent a lot of time talking to creators.

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Some who've already started some who are pretty deep into their journey.

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Some halfway through, if you.

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And one of the common things that comes up when I ask them,

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Hey, what's holding you back.

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What's slowing down.

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Like one of my favorite questions.

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What's keeping you small.

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Now I wanna save that question for a deeper conversation

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in a different episode.

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But in this episode I wanted to cover one of the most common answers I

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get when it comes to that question.

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When did I ponder?

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What's keeping you small.

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One of the most common answers I get is I don't feel like I'm the expert.

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I don't feel like people are gonna wanna listen to.

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I don't feel like people want to hear what I have to say.

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That is the most common answer I get, regardless of where the creator is

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in their journey, whether it's at the very beginning and whether it's fully

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deep into many, many years of doing what it is, they do that my friends.

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As what we're gonna talk about today here on the creator 50 podcast, Aloha.

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Welcome to creator 50 IM Doc Rock your content creation

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coach, and let's get into it.

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Here's the most important thing you can know as a content creator,

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you do not have to be an expert.

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A lot of times people are coming to you just to get a different perspective, just

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to hear another person's point of view.

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Oftentimes your experience.

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And your skill sets will bring a different approach, a different look, a

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different idea, a different set of values.

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And this is what people are seeking today.

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It is in my opinion that most people are tired of the fake gurus.

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Yes, that's right.

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I said it, most people are tired of the fake gurus.

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Instagram, the travelers with the, you know, holding the hand back, pulling

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their partner in these elegant scenes and, you know, turns out they're

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not even staying at that hotel.

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They're staying at the, at the, uh, what is that?

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Tombo debt motel six down the road or whatever.

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I'm not saying motel six, a bad place, but it's not, you know, people showing

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off these pal hotels in their IG and they're staying at the value in.

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So.

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Because of things like that, because of things like many of

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these guys getting caught in scams or scandals or whatever people are

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just over the hyper polished expert.

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Even for me, like sometimes when I do Instagram reel, I feel like I need to

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tone down what it is that I do, because I don't want people to get the impression.

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Everything I do is hyper polished or that you need to have a hyper

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polished studio in order to be a good podcaster or a good content creator.

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If you will, people want to see real people, people buy from people.

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So if you're just starting out or you're in the middle of your journey, you kind

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of wanna wake up the demons inside.

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You wanna wake up the dragons, or as we say, Notre Dame, wake up the echos.

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If you feel like you need a boost in your creator production, one of the first

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things you can do is remind yourself that you don't have to be an expert.

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In order to share your process.

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It's more about the documentation.

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It's more about sharing what's happening on your journey.

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It's more about sharing the tips and tricks that you're

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learning as you learn them.

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It turns out if you learn something new and you teach three people

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right away, you'll probably remember that thing forever.

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It's been proven.

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So you don't have to, you know, have a bunch.

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Degrees on the wall or certificates of completion on the wall, half of that

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stuff, you can just buy online anyway.

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So share where you are, share your wins, your struggles, your

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losses, your dreams, your hopes, your outlook, uh, your ideas share.

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everything well, not everything, but share as much as you can.

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And that will make you more valuable to most people than

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pretending to be some polished guru.

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So I just wanna say you don't have to be an expert now on the subject of

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expertise, some of you are actually experts and you just don't realize.

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Malcolm Gladwell said that it takes 10,000 hours to be an expert.

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And I somewhat agree with that, but that's oversimplified explanation

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of what's really going on expertise is largely repetition because

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repetition allows you to get.

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Recognition of a situation.

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And then that multiple instances of that recognition allows

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you to get some intuition.

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So what do I mean by that?

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If you're a, uh, guy playing pickup ball, you know, in the field you're

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playing, uh, I like, I will talk about round football soccer here.

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If you're a midfielder and, you know, pick up in the park

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games, you won't recognize those.

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Wininger runs as well as somebody like say Bruno Fernandez or, you

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know, some other top milk fielder.

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They play so many games.

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They played every day, practically, since they were children, they literally

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have three, 4,000 games in them.

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So sometimes without even looking.

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They can see those runs and American football, uh, really, really good

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quarterbacks can read those defenses.

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You'll watch young quarterbacks get sacked a lot.

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Why they haven't learned to read defenses yet.

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They're still young and able to get up and sometimes able to outrun

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the defenses, but the longevity quarterbacks that Tom Bradys of the game.

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Really, really good at reading defenses and sort of staying out of trouble.

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So the ability to recognize an inside blitz or a Mike linebacker blitz comes

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from repetition, tons, and tons, and tons of plays from scrimmage allows

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him to recognize those defenses and get the intuition that even at the line.

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I know who's coming and who's not.

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So you can pump fake that guy hit the man deep and do things like, you know,

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come back from a 28 point deficit in the super bowl, which irritated my life.

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But Hey, it's Tom Brady.

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Basically your expertise is going to come from the more attempts

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that success with the feedback to then make adjustments accordingly.

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So attempts plus feedback gives you your expertise.

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So if you're a content creator, like.

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I try to tell everybody create as much content as possible.

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Good, bad, ugly, different.

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Just keep creating content.

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The more content create the sooner you start to recognize what works,

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what people are looking for, what people want to hear, and the better

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you're able to use your intuition to bring value to the people when you're

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ready to bring value to the people.

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Speaking of value.

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Hope you got some value outta this episode.

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Just a quick reminder from your man Doc here, you do not have to be an

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expert to share your process, share your journey, and you'll find it to

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be a lot more fun and Hey, believe it or not, some people will kick you to

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feedback that will help you and allow you to get to where you get quicker.

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It's.

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Crowds or group sourcing, not crowd sourcing, group

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sourcing your learning process.

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This makes things work so much better.

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I hope you enjoyed this episode.

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This was a real quick one, but it was something that I thought I should share

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right away, because I'm, I just hear it so, so often, and yeah, I think I

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will dive deeper into conversations of what is it that's keeping you small.

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If you're trying to grow.

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If you're trying to get bigger and better at what you.

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Do a little internal research and ask yourself that question

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and what's keeping you small.

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If you feel like sharing, reach out to me, hit me up real quick

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and let me know what's going on.

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You can find me all over the Internet's at Doc Rock on Twitter,

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Instagram slide into the DMS.

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And let me know.

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I'm curious to hear what you gotta say.

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I hope you enjoyed this once again.

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I'm Doc Rock your content creation, coach.

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That's it for this episode.

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I am a Thinker. I am a Creator. I am a Maker. I am You. The world as I see it is a place full of possibilities, and only when we share our collective experiences, learn from our failures and keep striving for a perfect way of being can we all live our lives to the fullest extent possible.

As the late, great Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” I’ve had my share of failures and false starts, but through it all, I learned something new, picked myself up, and kept it moving.

I am personally on a mission to positively touch a billion people’s lives by collaborating and sharing stories and ideas. My work as a YouTuber, Trainer, Speaker, Podcaster, Moderator, and Designer has helped put me on a path to achieve my mission. I have recently founded the Let’s Get Live (LGL) community which has helped provide a rapidly expanding platform for people to help one another and learn and grow together. Our work is never, done so Let’s Get Live!


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