A short YouTube monologue (by James Laughlin) arguing that sharing your personal experiences—both the good and the bad—makes content unique and reinforces identity. The speaker defines experience as something learned through having gone through events, and claims that true expertise is accumulated experience that lets one help others avoid mistakes; this sharing underlies meaningful education.
By sharing your experiences, your content is unique. By sharing your experiences, that content reinforces who you are. By sharing the good, bad, and ugly like combined, it helps people understand your experience. An experience is what you get just after you need it. And so to be an expert isn't I'm a self proclaimed expert. To be an expert means you have enough experience that you've learned enough that you can help people skip over the stuff that went wrong and learn from your mistakes. And that is like the essence of education. And why someone would learn is because not that you have expertise, but that you have experience.
