When you visit an expert for advice, you expect the expert to know more about the subject in question than you do.
You trust the expert to be able to assess your situation and to apply his or her specialized experience and information toward your situation.
If you are wise, you ask the wisest part of you, does this specialized information apply to my life in the way the expert says it does?
Will applying his or her recommendations improve this situation and my life?
If you are unclear, you may consult another expert to see if the next expert agrees with the first. Or you consult a third expert to see whether there is expert consensus.
Then you make a decision about whether to apply the advice.
An expert is someone who has or shows ...
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