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Expertise

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When expertise qualifies you, obsession mobilizes you in a way that runs circles around the experts.

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Most questions just aren’t that pressing, but the urge to ask the expert immediately is irresistible.

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…expertise in a domain is not a single skill but rather a large collection of miniskills.

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Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice.

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Expertise is not a single skill; it is a collection of skills, and the same professional may be highly expert in some of the tasks in her domain while remaining a novice in others.

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The unrecognized limits of professional skill help explain why experts are often overconfident.

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Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences.

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…there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

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Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients.

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…men tend to dominate conversations by talking over others (especially their female colleagues) and are faster to deem themselves experts.

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