Expertise

Studies have been done on expertise and one aspect is that expertise takes at least ten thousand hours in a specific field. But it takes more than that. It takes curiosity. It takes passion, a longing for that knowledge, a clear goal and the ability and willingness to learn.

Expertise takes a lifetime of ups and downs, failure, tears, frustration, lack of confidence and over confidence. It takes the fortitude to persevere. It takes a conscious effort, a clarity of mind to dismiss common and popular opinions of others that are not experts.

To be an expert takes the ability to recognize others that might be experts and to learn from them. It takes the decision to work towards that clear goal you have set in mind regularly and to pay prices no matter the cost in order to understand and delve deeper into that understanding.

You might ask yourself if you are an expert in any field. You might be but it is not for you to say. An expert lives with the knowledge of ignorance and the ignorance of knowledge.