expertise Quotes

“Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.”

“But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert.”

“Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

“There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?”

“We told them that trying to do things they can’t yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way experts practice.”

“Most of us take pride in our knowledge and expertise, and in staying true to our beliefs and opinions. That makes sense in a stable world, where we get rewarded for having conviction in our ideas. The problem is that we live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.”