My handy on-screen dictionary says that an
expert is ‘a person who is very skillful or highly trained and informed in some
special field.’ The word ‘expert’ is linguistically linked with the word ‘experience’,
which makes sense. One becomes an expert partly through experience.
Strangely though, the word also draws its
root from a Latin term for danger or risk. I suppose the idea is that any new
experience carries with it some degree of risk. That risk may be physical
danger, failure to succeed, failure to comprehend, personal dislike, or some
other outcome that we may define as potentially negative.
Whether we succeed or fail, some useful experience
will be gained, although we can reasonably assume that ‘expert’ is usually more
closely associated with successful experience.
In your experience, you may have noticed
varying degrees of expertness in people, or different types of ‘expert.’ We
will discuss some of these in the next post.
Here at Nova, we have gained some expertise
in gas analysis over the years. Some of it has been through failure, and much
of it has been through success. Some of it has come from books, but much of it
has come from talking and working with other helpful people.
Nova website “About us…”
We make gas analyzers for oxygen, hydrogen,
carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and many other atmospheric gases. We
provide gas analysers for syngas, landfill gas, purity gas, biogas, and others.
Give Mike or Dave at Nova a call, or send
us an e-mail.
1-800-295-3771
sales at nova-gas dot com
websales at nova-gas dot com
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Nova Analytical Systems under Companies and follow us if you want.
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