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ten thousand hours of being wrong, polished into looking effortlessly right.
means The deep skill, knowledge, or judgment that someone has gained in a particular field through training and experience.
from From French expertise, "expert appraisal," built on expert, which traces back to Latin expertus — the past participle of experiri, "to try, to test, to put to the proof." So buried in the word is the idea that an expert is literally someone who has been tested, who has tried things out. It shares that experiri root with experiment and experience — three cousins all descended from the act of trying and seeing what happens.
- the irony
- true experts overestimate how little they actually know
- brain rewiring
- London cabbies grow bigger hippocampi from memorizing streets
- speed trap
- experts skip steps novices need, sometimes missing the obvious
- decay rate
- skills fade fast without deliberate, uncomfortable practice
- the curse
- mastery makes explaining basics surprisingly difficult
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