How to Enhance Your Expertise

By the time we’re at midlife, we’ve got a healthy amount of career expertise under our belts. And yet you can never stop seeking that edge that comes with a greater depth of subject matter proficency.

For some, though, the urge to venture into a completely new area at midlife is strong. Are we able to develop new areas of expertise and make a substantial pivot?

I’ve often said that all it takes to become an expert relative to the general population is to read two or three books on a topic. And that’s technically true, assuming you retain and internalize the information contained in the books and build from there.

Problem is, what we know about “book learning” from decades ago is not the best way to do it. The idea of poring over the material until you know it cold is simply not that effective.

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Πηγή: further.net