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It really looks to me like you flip the bozo bit where you shouldn't. It is really hard to find a person whose interests and competence match that which you are interested in. But it is easy to find someone you can learn useful stuff from whose interests don't so align. Don't believe me? Consider Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for a second. The main character of that book is mechanically inclined. But are…
The main character of the book is not mechanically inclined, he is inclined, so to speak, with necessity to understand and explain, to find out the meaning of things and phenomena he observed. The quest for the Truth (only to find Quality instead, or a "perfect" Balance as it called on the East) is a state of mind, which is roughly a mix of curiosity, logical reasoning, imagination and persistence. Some call such set…
You're like a person who can run 10 km nonstop and therefore respects someone who can run 15 km. But since you've never tried riding a bike a long way or swimming, you don't respect people in those professions.
If, instead of turning your nose up at them, you were to try those other professions, then you might find yourself developing some respect for what it takes.
That's kind of where I am. I have learned some things in depth. But I've learned enough about enough things that I have come to expect there to be something real to learn to be good at pretty much anything I don't already know. Since I'm smarter than most, I can learn a lot of things relatively quickly. But I still can find ways to treat people who know things that I don't with respect.