You need to know enough about medicine to choose your doctor

Trust the “experts” they tell us, but which experts? You can find two people far smarter than you or I will ever be, who will hold completely opposite opinions. So maybe you decide to trust consensus, but consensus can be subject to groupthink, and isn’t always correct. So at some point it each individual has to decide who and what they choose to trust. Some base level of understanding of

  • You need to know enough about medicine to choose your doctor
  • You need to know enough about tax to choose your accountant
  • You need to know enough about a car to choose your mechanic or even the car you buy
  • You need to know enough about investing to choose your financial advisor
  • You need to know enough about theology to choose your church
  • You need to know enough about politics to vote for your politicians