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Science has discovered that if you do anything for 10,000 hours, you become an expert at it. :)
Four hours a day would take about seven years to add up to 10,000. I think I became an expert at running BigCloset sometime about three years ago. :)
How many of you have become experts at something without quite realizing it?
- Erin
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several probably...but...
I'm sure that for every time you screw up you lose about half those. So for most things I'm probably way behind. Um... no slur intended to BC management of course. Purely a personal viewpoint.
Kristina
Undoubtedly this was
Undoubtedly this was discovered by some man who had spent over 10,000 hours working on a government-sponsored project that was going nowhere, so he was trying to justify his efforts. In my experience, most people spend a majority of their time practicing their mistakes. What this makes them an expert in I hesitate to say.
Present company excepted, of course! :)
Happy Labor Day to all!
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."
College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Expert Qualifications
I am an expert in making mistakes.
And by the 10.000 hours rule I claim expertise in covering them up. Badly.
I am moderately expert in justifying them, or, when that fails, attributing them to others.
My ambition is to perfect my inability to recognise my mistakes.
Hgus,
Fleurie
Teflon Shoulders
That's what you need. Then the sh.. er mud doesn't stick.
If you can develop them as sloping shoulders too, this works even better.
I have worked with many like this and it doesn't seem to matter what is thrown at them, nothing seems to stick!
It's an alternative to being expert in a commercial world anyway.
Nick B
Giggle, giggle...
Sleeping and talking would be the most popular expert positions. Then there would be what ever your chosen field of work is...IF, you've stayed at it for the required amount of time.
Of course there are always the exceptions to these funny little scientific drivels...
Huggles Mom
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
Oh my **d!
Given the amount of time the average person spends sleping, eating, on the toilet and so on, I shudder to think what I am *expert* in.
As Angel implies, these surveys/reports/studies can be taken to extreams. And as Kristina and Karen point out, we are as likely to perfecting our misunderstanding of a subect than our actual mastery of it.
10000 hours, um, "Excuse me miss, I'm working on becoming an expert on human sexuality, care to assit me in my research?" 10000 hours, even Wilt Chamberlin and Hugh Hefner would be hard pressed to have in that many hours.
You spend WAY too much time catering to us on you sites, Erin. And bless you for it.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
I started to comment yesterday...
...but I put it off until today. Procrastination is a skill I am definitely an expert at. Denial too - I live in a constant state of it so I must be an expert.
Scott
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-- Moliere
Bree
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