What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don’t know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another common counterquestion that challengers can expect to be hit with is some version of Okay, genius, how would you do it better? An interesting assumption is built into this question: that if someone is going to challenge the existing ways, then he/she had better have an alternative ready. But it’s important to ask Why and What If questions even if we don’t yet know the How. Getting to a better alternative may be a long process, but it has to start
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