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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 couldn't 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. Experts achieve expert status through extensive education; through intensive research; or through prolonged, deliberate practice.
In this article, we'll examine the benefits of becoming an expert, and we'll look at how to build expertise.
There are many benefits to being an expert in a particular field.
For instance,
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