Expertise... because I'll want something to read later after moving house all day.

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What do you consider yourself an expert at? Why?

Studies show that most world-class experts in any field have spent at least 10000 hours working on the related skills. No, I don't have a citation to hand... What have you spent 10000 hours or more learning or practising? That's 3 hours a day for 10 years.

How much overlap is there between these categories?

Do you consider yourself a specialist or a generalist? Why?

Is expertise absolute or relative?

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Expert in astrophysics - and I have the certificates to prove it. Probably expert in physics as well. I'd claim that astrophysics is a generalists field since you need to call on a lot of different skills and techniques to get the job done, but some might not see it that way.

I'm probably also an expert in science fiction in some way if your 10000 hour figure is right as I've been reading it in a fairly dedicated way for most of my life. Don't know if this makes me any better at writing the stuff though...

Plenty of overlap between physics and astrophysics, less with SF but more than you might expect, at least from my point of view.

Hope the move is going okay!