Hussey » experts http://frumppyoldwoman.com Travels, Thoughts, and the Oxford Comma Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:45:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Experts http://frumppyoldwoman.com/2010/01/22/experts/ http://frumppyoldwoman.com/2010/01/22/experts/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:11:00 +0000 brettjamin http://frumppyoldwoman.com/?p=90 Studies have shown that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice at something to become an expert in that field.  Certainly that number will have a huge amount of variation, but it’s a good, round, talking point.

Over the last several years I have spent most of my time on several activities:

  • Travel
  • Computer Program
  • Study Mathematics
  • Learn about cyling

For all but the last one I am probably close to that 10,000 hour mark, and I certainly have a large knowledge of these skills (at least speaking in percentiles, not necessarily magnitude).  Why do you, or I, care?  It’s important for me to spend my time wisely.  I feel that the skills that I’ve purchased have a high value; however, I’ve acquired them mostly because they fell into my lap and were the “shiniest” thing in my line of sight.

It’s important to seek out the most valuable things to spend time on.  How do you do that?  How do you know when you’ve found something valuable to spend your time on?

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