
Discover the benefits of building your expertise.
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From the doctors who look after our health to successful engineers and effective leaders, expertise is all around us.
Many of us have some level of expertise – we probably wouldn't be able to do our jobs if we didn't! But how many of us can say that we're genuine experts in a given area?
Essentially, an expert is someone who is recognized as being an authority on a particular subject, or as having mastered a particular technique or skill. Most experts achieve expert status through extensive training and education; through intensive study and research; or through prolonged, deliberate practice.
In this article, we'll examine the benefits of building expertise, and we'll look at how to go about doing it.
There are many benefits to being an expert in a particular field.
For instance...
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