We showed that ordinary experts can be inflexible, that is unable to resist the temptation of choosing a well-known solution, and that for them ‘inflexibility of experts’ is reality. However, we also showed that super experts maintain control over their performance, noticing and taking into account even the smallest, and, on first sight, maybe irrelevant, details. Inflexibility of experts is both myth and reality. But the greater the degree of expertise, the more of a myth it becomes.