{"id":555,"date":"2014-01-21T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2014-01-21T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:25:29","slug":"on-helping-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/on-helping-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"On Helping Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/201401\/LifePreserver.jpg\" alt=\"Life Preserver\" title=\"Life Preserver\" style=\"float:left; margin: .5em;\" \/>A very common objection that I hear that keeps people from teaching others is that the person feels that they aren&#8217;t &#8220;expert&#8221; enough to teach someone else.  Any while I don&#8217;t doubt that the person lacks the credentials to be an &#8220;expert&#8221;, they do have some life experience to share.<\/p>\n<p>The way I heard it described the other day on The Podcast Answer Man (<a href=\"http:\/\/podcastanswerman.com\/339\/\">link to episode<\/a>) was that it is more about where each person is in their life.  As an adult, I don&#8217;t see a 6th grader as having a wealth of knowledge.  However, to a 4th grader, the 6th grader has a lot of valuable answers and experience to share.<\/p>\n<p>All of you have at least a &#8220;6th grade level knowledge&#8221; about something.  Go out and be a hero to someone who is at that 5th grade level or below.  As long as you are honest about where you&#8217;re at and what your story is, you aren&#8217;t a fraud or a phony.  Everyone is a beginner at some point.  There is nothing wrong with an &#8220;advanced beginner&#8221; or higher turning around and helping those on the trail behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Excuses are a crutch.  If you feel compelled to help others, just do it.  Start a blog, start a podcast, speak at user groups&#8230; whatever gets you excited.  Your content won&#8217;t be for everyone, but &#8211; NEWS FLASH &#8211; no content pleases everyone.  If someone is too advanced for your content, then they aren&#8217;t in your core audience.  As long as you didn&#8217;t promise an advanced session, don&#8217;t worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>Now go create!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very common objection that I hear that keeps people from teaching others is that the person feels that they aren&#8217;t &#8220;expert&#8221; enough to teach someone else. Any while I don&#8217;t doubt that the person &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,69],"tags":[107,123],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentoring","category-soft-skills","tag-mentoring","tag-soft-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}