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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I'd say that I'm an expert in protein biochemistry and mass spectrometry. It's taken a long time for me to feel comfortable with the label 'expert' and it is only recently, when people I consider experts have recognised me that I think 'yes to some extent I am an expert.'

As for the generalist or specialist, well yes my subject area is specialist compared to all the vast knowledge and other subjects in the world, but within my little field I'm somewhat of a generalist.

Likewise with absolute or relative. It's only when I realised that I do know much more than most people about my subject that I felt the label 'expert' (SVO) was appropriate - and when other people had been applying it to me. Still, within the subject area I still feel (correctly) to be a bit of a novice - there are some world-class experts out there whose work and knowledge is leagues beyond mine.