Blind leading the blind

      Subject matter experts - and I use this term loosely - seem to be popping up everywhere these days. No true experience is needed anymore, as long as you have dipped your toes in the area you are talking about you are now considered an expert. This obviously is not true, but why is it now a days people blindly follow individuals and don't ask question. For example, there is an individual that I guess lost a lot of weight and turned his life around. Awesome, I can commend this. Now this person is going around as a personal trainer - who doesn't have personal contact with his clients- with no true experience. The scary part is a lot of people are following him and even paying him their hard earned money. He gives everyone the same advice and workout plans via text message. I talked to one of his clients today and he said," If I saw the guy face to face, I wouldn't know who he is." Where is the personal in personal training with that. The clients just listen to him via text messaging and send their 100 dollars every four weeks. I don't get it! Do these people not understand that every ones body is different and need different plans. I am on the understanding that he is big on zero carbs. Well, this is how I know he is not a subject matter expert at all. First, one of the four main compounds that make up your body are carbohydrates so why would you eliminate them. Two, every thing we eat has some form of carbohydrates, this includes vegetables. The carbs in vegetables are in the form of cellulose, which are body does not have the right enzymes to metabolize, so it leaves the body as waste. This is the reason it takes more calories to eat celery than you get from celery. I wonder if the newly self proclaimed personal trainer knows this fact? It is not just this example that comes to mind when I think of the blind leading the blind.

       There was an individual I want to a specialized school with. He was brought up in a very well home, and his parents had great jobs. This lead to the individual being able to attend any course he wanted to without money being a problem. I know he became a helicopter pilot, but never flew one professionally. He went to the school I attended for personal security, but has never enlisted in the military or became a private contractor. He went through an Emergency Medical Technician course and is now a Nationally Registered EMT-B, but has never work in the pre hospital services. I saw on Facebook he just graduated from the police academy, but do you think he works as a Law Enforcement Officer? No! So what does this have to do with the blind leading the blind, mommy and daddy put up the money for him to start a training company teaching every one of this skill sets, even though he has no true experience. Once again, the scary part is people actually come to him for training and pay their hard earned money.

       Don't be afraid to research the individual claiming to be a subject matter expert in something you want to learn. In all reality you need to, because it is your time, your money, and your brain the knowledge will be engulfing. Not to mention some one teaching you this things can hurt you or god forbid kill you. Don't follow the crowd like cattle following the hay truck. Break off and inform yourself. It will help you in the long run.