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?

Comments

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I consider myself a generalist. And given a choice, I'd rather do several things well, than only one thing extraordinarily.

I'd say I'm a good writer (not that you could tell from my typos and raw unedited journal entries) and photographer, and get paid for both. So I'm a professional but am far from being an expert.

I'm very good at my job because I have a knack for investigative work. But I'm in no way an expert. (yet I know enough to teach/train others and give presentations)

Others call me an expert on outdoor activities (I work for the largest outdoor retailer in the world and among them am considered an "expert", it was even my job for a time to advise customers and phone reps on the technical aspects of products)

But you see, I can't consider myself an "expert" in that because technology is always changing and no one (in my opinion) can keep up on those changes unless that's ALL they do.

I'm happy doing a lot of things well and not having to limit my time and energy to just one or two things.

I think life is more interesting that way.