Here is an interesting story I came across:

‘After receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918, Max Planck went on tour across Germany. Wherever he was invited, he delivered the same lecture on new quantum mechanics. Over time, his chauffeur grew to know it by heart: ‘It has to be boring giving the same speech each time, Professor Planck. How about I do it for you in Munich? You can sit in the front row and wear my chauffeur’s cap. That’d give us both a bit of variety.’ Planck liked the idea, so that evening the driver held a long lecture on quantum mechanics in front of a distinguished audience. Later, a physics professor stood up with a question. The driver recoiled: ‘Never would I have thought that someone from such an advanced city as Munich would ask such a simple question! My chauffeur will answer it.’

The internet is full of content- articles, posts, studies, stories. And the portals like Medium, LinkedIn, Facebook with other social media platforms are the biggest yard where a large number of curated content/articles/posts are dumped every second, and most of them come from chauffeur knowledge, even the news portals and news channels are hugely dependent on it.

In recent times most motivational speakers and trainers are examples of chauffeurs, the knowledge they espouse is not their own. They reel off eloquent words as if reading from a script.

Unfortunately, it is increasingly difficult to separate true knowledge from chauffeur knowledge..