Untrap Your Expertise™

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Day 7: Identify What Your Expertise Could Become

Match what you uncovered to a form another person could use.

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Shannon D. Smith 🪏
Aug 21, 2026
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Welcome to Day 7 !

Today, you will connect the expertise you uncovered to one possible form that another person could use.

You will identify a candidate. You do not need to design or build it today.

Useful expertise needs a form

During the past six days, you selected one situation and recovered several layers beneath your performance:

  • The result other people see.

  • The hidden work that supports it.

  • The decisions that change your direction.

  • The clues that inform those decisions.

  • The questions you use to interpret the clues.

  • The exceptions that require you to adjust.

This material can become useful beyond the original event. The appropriate form depends on who needs it, when they need it, and what they must be able to do.

A list of everything you know may preserve information without helping another person perform. A useful expertise artifact organizes selected knowledge around a real decision, task, or problem.

Today, you will identify that possible use.

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