trusting your "expertise" beyond your knowledge, or as they used to say, "writing checks your ass can't cash."
So a guy I know asks me to help make some bread. Same guy in some of my stories about arguing facts and who because he had a couple weeks working with the forestry department while training with the Marines, thinks he knows exactly how forests should be managed, where the West coast is making all their mistakes, and everyone else is a bunch of idiots.
I wasn't really there to help, but to hang out and keep them company. Making sweet bread. I'm reading the recipe as he goes. I should have guessed, but we weren't going to follow the recipe. Because he's an expert bread maker because he made bread with his church group a handful of times. Knead for 10 minutes. Nope. Squished it between his fingers for a couple minutes, and that was the kneading. Called for X amount of sugar, but because he likes sugar, he 1.5ed that amount. Cream the butter. Nope. Just mixed it all together in one shot. Doesn't call for oil, but he adds some vegetable oil.
A couple hours later I get a call that it hasn't risen. Come to find out that the last time he made the bread, which was also his first time, it didn't turn out. I finally asked if he'd considered kneading it. I'm not a bread expert. I've only ever made 4-ingredient beer bread. I just know that there's a recipe for a reason, and he wasn't following a good 25-30% of it.
I don't understand people (ie men) who think they're experts at things because they've done it a few times or because it is a common thing or because they're so trusting of their superior self that they don't need help or guidance to do something. You've made the bread twice now. Neither worked. Why not follow the recipe to the T for once?