If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.” — Epictetus
Just like we don’t go to our lawyer for a health check, we don’t go to our doctor for legal advice.
It’d be unfair to expect either of them to be knowledgeable about the other’s work. Heck, if the surgeon was about to operate and started giving me advice on how to write a will, I’d be terrified. It’s clear there is value in focus.
If we want to make meaningful progress in our personal or professional lives, we need to be comfortable being seen as clueless on topics that are unrelated to the impact we wish to have in the world. We need to become exceptional at saying no to the inconsequential.