Do You Know What You're Doing?

That kind of questions come to mind when you are looking at someone who doesn't seem like they do. It's kinda hard because you are thinking "Man, you don't know shit about this, now do you", but often they present themselves or they are presented as "The One Who Knows Best". It would be cool to think that these are the least of people, but sadly that's not the case. In general I've observed that for each person who does know there are at least 1000 who PRETEND to know, and usually the ones who know don't even say so!

Are there ways to spot this people? Well, hardly before hand, but it's easy once they started sharing their "wisdom" and you realize it's going nowhere, or the more it speaks, the less it seems like it makes sense. Some of them also like to pretend to be introduced to a higher level of knowledge - to a secret society, so to say - and so when they see your initial attempts all they do is look at other "initiates" and mock, like "oh, they think that's the way to do it, hahahahaha". Someone who knows may not have the patience to explain you in detail, over and over so you get to share the knowledge (that's me, I'm 0 patience, 0 tolerance and 0 bullshit), but they won't laught at you for not knowing, because they've been there too, and they know that that's where you start.

Someone who knows either helps you understand or tells you where you can find the help you need to understand. Someone who knows - really knows - can actually use simple words and explain clearly to make you understand what you don't know. Someone who knows addresses your question directly, and explains exactly what you need to know, and if it must explain something prior to that, someone who knows, can make that explanation short and to the point making it clear where comes from what you are asking for.

Someone who doesn't know uses big words to pretend to be important. Won't explain and say that you wouldn't understand either. It will speak but make no sense. It would never address your question directly, it will always seek alternative routes to reach only the part they do understand, or the part they have learned to fake.

So, the next time, don't be afraid of call on someone's bullshit, and don't waste your time with the pointless explanations of those who don't know.