What Makes an Expert
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What separates experts from enthusiasts?
The answer is having done the reps.
See, a physics enthusiast might watch lots of documentaries, quantum mechanics, relativity…
I mean, yeah, they can explain the big ideas at a really surface level, and that might be enough to impress people at dinner parties, but a physics expert has actually solved problems, applied their knowledge, tested and refined hypotheses.
I mean, yes, they were probably guided down this learning path so that they could work efficiently.
But the point is, they learned what works and what doesn’t by doing concrete reps.
They didn’t just watch a bunch of videos.
They actually did the problems.
And without those reps, you might be familiar with physics, but you can’t actually do physics.
Expertise comes from actually doing the work and producing something, not just consuming information about it.
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