(specialist alternative)

Feeling funny inside, do you call a Cardiothoracic surgeon? No! You go see a GP (General Practitioner) and get a thorough diagnosis and a referral, with perhaps some lab work on the way.

It should be the same for the professional areas of your life.

Folks are really bad at self diagnosis. The internet has made that worse, giving people more presumed diagnoses and prescriptions—in hopes of selling them solutions. Our post-ChatGPT era may worsen this further.

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As in Medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

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Triage is a better approach

1. you don’t need a specialist. You can DIY it.
2. a different specialist and/or course of action would serve you better
3. the presumed specialist is the . I’ll help you choose, negotiate.

Sometimes, it’s a combination of the above: read a book, attend an event.

Think of it as a general practitioner for yoru soul

I’m an unabashed Five-Star Generalist, Renaissance man…

Five-Star Generalist