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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[martling.livejournal.com]

I think it also highlights different strategies of acquiring and maintaining expertise, i.e. which do you attempt to maximise:

- your relative expertise (e.g. by keeping your knowledge secret)

- your absolute expertise (e.g. by sharing/trading skills)

- the combined absolute or relative expertise of some particular group of people (e.g. by sharing/trading only among those people)

- the combined absolute expertise of the human race (e.g. by sharing as widely as possible)