Did You know You Are An Expert in at Least Three-Skills?
Do You Know You Are an Expert in at Least Three-Skills?
Wait – how do you define “expert”, and what exactly is required to be considered an expert in a field?
I hate glittering generalities and require specific information to learn something new.
There are three (3) ways to qualify to be an expert in most professions and areas of talent.
The Ten Thousand Hour Rule
The creator of this rule is K. Anders Erisson, professor at Florida State University. He first saw it played out in Berlin, Germany at the German Academy of Music. He concluded it was nurture more than nature, and not natural genius or innate talent, but hard work. Regardless of talent, it took deliberate practice (daily) to master any skill. Competence, proficiency and knowledge require practice.
Ten Thousand Hours is the equivalent of three-hours daily for ten (10) years. More hours daily reduces the number of years, right? Take your pick – ten-years or ten-thousand hours is the minimum to acquire expertise in a field of knowledge or skill.
Dr. David Shanks
Professor Shanks picked up on this theory while at University College, London from Erisson in 1990.
He saw the merit in disposing of the argument you have to be born a star. He was more comfortable with the practical application of effort and diligence to attain expertise. He liked the idea that it is not
Innate (inborn) talent that ultimately decides who is an expert.
Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt
In 2006, these two published “Freakonomics –the hidden side of everything” It is now a standard that is an annually best-seller. Professor Dubner is an internationally recognized economist, teaching at University of Chicago since 1997. Levitt is a super-star journalist in NYC and a major contributor to the on-going website on Freakonomics. They gave lasting fame to K. Anders Erisson by popularizing his Ten-Thousand Hour Rule.
So What
There are three-ways to gain a reputation as an expert – putting in 10,000 hours, ten-years, and one more. If the expert has absorbed 30,000 chunks of knowledge in his field, he wins the title. What is chunking?
Chunking is a psychological term – meaning organizing items (ideas) into manageable units. Example:
Which is easier to remember – 5165551212 or 516-555-1212? That’s chunking. This is an example of a long-term memory strategy. What are you really doing? Answer: recoding information into short-term memory. Get this: you have only 43 seconds to take short-term and turning it into long-term memory.
How?
Three-ways: repetition – association or artificial use of a digital recording device to remember the new information. If you waste time, your new short-term memory disappears and you lose it. What’s her
name again? For Smart-Alecs: check out an article called The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, by George A. Miller, 1956. Explains short-term human memory. Remember – you have about 43 seconds to save it to the Hippocampus or your Amygdala chews it up.
You Said We Have Expertise in Three-Skills
Glad you reminded me. One is Eating – at least ten-years or ten-thousand hours. Second is Sleeping, we are all experts in that talent. Third is reading. Most of us have piled up the ten-years or ten-thousand hours because we started at age five or six and read daily.
There are Three Ways to Win Comprehension in Reading
One: Phonics – the sounding of each letter in a word. It is so-o slow, and is used 62% of the time by college graduates.
Two: Holistic Word Recognition – that means we comprehend words by remember their shape. Repetition imprints the shape in our long-term memory. We use it 16% of the time college graduates read text material.
Three: Whole Language – we comprehend words and gain meaning by seeing the CONTEXT of the word as it is used in a sentence. This strategy is used 22% of the time by college graduates.
We use all three of the aforementioned simultaneously, not just pick and choose one.
How fast do College Graduates Read?
The average lawyer, doctor and college graduate reads easy material at approximately 210 words per minute, with a comprehension of only sixty (60%) percent. That is about 100 words per minute in reality. What about tough, text material? Cut it in half. Face it, we are s-l-o-w, slow readers, which explains Information-Overload, and the low U.S. student rates in Science and Math.
When you read that slowly, with Porous-Comprehension, you get easily frustrated, and want to quit.
The high school and college drop-out rate because of lousy reading skills is a minimum of 35-40%. Sad.
There is a solution – it is called Speed Reading, a series of learning strategies for kids and adults.
Zoning-Out
More than 50% of students and executives zone-out after reading more than five-minutes. Some of us can go up to 20-minutes before falling mental asleep while reading. Your eyes take in the words, but your prefrontal-cortex is not paying attention to meaning and comprehension.
For cool folks: Goggle: Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area for semantics - the meaning of what you are reading. Reading not just perusing sentences down a page, you must be able to get the ideas that the writer is submitting in the book, article or report. Attention is everything and add to that recalling the gist of new knowledge. Less than that is Zoning-out.
Endwords
The good news is that you can become an expert in a specialized area of knowledge without being a genius to start with. Find an area of knowledge or even a hobby that turns you on, and put in the time.
See ya,
Copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler
N.B. If you would like to win promotions, raises and company profit, change your way of learning. We have about 40 copies of a great article on how to speed read. Question: would you have a great unique competitive advantage over your peers if you could learn and remember three (3x) times better than other folks in your organization?
Contact us for a free, no strings attached winning article on how to be a great speed reader. Only contact us is you are interested in promotions, raises and profits. The author wrote “Speed Reading For
Professionals”, published by Barron’s
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Wait – how do you define “expert”, and what exactly is required to be considered an expert in a field?
I hate glittering generalities and require specific information to learn something new.
There are three (3) ways to qualify to be an expert in most professions and areas of talent.
The Ten Thousand Hour Rule
The creator of this rule is K. Anders Erisson, professor at Florida State University. He first saw it played out in Berlin, Germany at the German Academy of Music. He concluded it was nurture more than nature, and not natural genius or innate talent, but hard work. Regardless of talent, it took deliberate practice (daily) to master any skill. Competence, proficiency and knowledge require practice.
Ten Thousand Hours is the equivalent of three-hours daily for ten (10) years. More hours daily reduces the number of years, right? Take your pick – ten-years or ten-thousand hours is the minimum to acquire expertise in a field of knowledge or skill.
Dr. David Shanks
Professor Shanks picked up on this theory while at University College, London from Erisson in 1990.
He saw the merit in disposing of the argument you have to be born a star. He was more comfortable with the practical application of effort and diligence to attain expertise. He liked the idea that it is not
Innate (inborn) talent that ultimately decides who is an expert.
Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt
In 2006, these two published “Freakonomics –the hidden side of everything” It is now a standard that is an annually best-seller. Professor Dubner is an internationally recognized economist, teaching at University of Chicago since 1997. Levitt is a super-star journalist in NYC and a major contributor to the on-going website on Freakonomics. They gave lasting fame to K. Anders Erisson by popularizing his Ten-Thousand Hour Rule.
So What
There are three-ways to gain a reputation as an expert – putting in 10,000 hours, ten-years, and one more. If the expert has absorbed 30,000 chunks of knowledge in his field, he wins the title. What is chunking?
Chunking is a psychological term – meaning organizing items (ideas) into manageable units. Example:
Which is easier to remember – 5165551212 or 516-555-1212? That’s chunking. This is an example of a long-term memory strategy. What are you really doing? Answer: recoding information into short-term memory. Get this: you have only 43 seconds to take short-term and turning it into long-term memory.
How?
Three-ways: repetition – association or artificial use of a digital recording device to remember the new information. If you waste time, your new short-term memory disappears and you lose it. What’s her
name again? For Smart-Alecs: check out an article called The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, by George A. Miller, 1956. Explains short-term human memory. Remember – you have about 43 seconds to save it to the Hippocampus or your Amygdala chews it up.
You Said We Have Expertise in Three-Skills
Glad you reminded me. One is Eating – at least ten-years or ten-thousand hours. Second is Sleeping, we are all experts in that talent. Third is reading. Most of us have piled up the ten-years or ten-thousand hours because we started at age five or six and read daily.
There are Three Ways to Win Comprehension in Reading
One: Phonics – the sounding of each letter in a word. It is so-o slow, and is used 62% of the time by college graduates.
Two: Holistic Word Recognition – that means we comprehend words by remember their shape. Repetition imprints the shape in our long-term memory. We use it 16% of the time college graduates read text material.
Three: Whole Language – we comprehend words and gain meaning by seeing the CONTEXT of the word as it is used in a sentence. This strategy is used 22% of the time by college graduates.
We use all three of the aforementioned simultaneously, not just pick and choose one.
How fast do College Graduates Read?
The average lawyer, doctor and college graduate reads easy material at approximately 210 words per minute, with a comprehension of only sixty (60%) percent. That is about 100 words per minute in reality. What about tough, text material? Cut it in half. Face it, we are s-l-o-w, slow readers, which explains Information-Overload, and the low U.S. student rates in Science and Math.
When you read that slowly, with Porous-Comprehension, you get easily frustrated, and want to quit.
The high school and college drop-out rate because of lousy reading skills is a minimum of 35-40%. Sad.
There is a solution – it is called Speed Reading, a series of learning strategies for kids and adults.
Zoning-Out
More than 50% of students and executives zone-out after reading more than five-minutes. Some of us can go up to 20-minutes before falling mental asleep while reading. Your eyes take in the words, but your prefrontal-cortex is not paying attention to meaning and comprehension.
For cool folks: Goggle: Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area for semantics - the meaning of what you are reading. Reading not just perusing sentences down a page, you must be able to get the ideas that the writer is submitting in the book, article or report. Attention is everything and add to that recalling the gist of new knowledge. Less than that is Zoning-out.
Endwords
The good news is that you can become an expert in a specialized area of knowledge without being a genius to start with. Find an area of knowledge or even a hobby that turns you on, and put in the time.
See ya,
Copyright 2011, H. Bernard Wechsler
N.B. If you would like to win promotions, raises and company profit, change your way of learning. We have about 40 copies of a great article on how to speed read. Question: would you have a great unique competitive advantage over your peers if you could learn and remember three (3x) times better than other folks in your organization?
Contact us for a free, no strings attached winning article on how to be a great speed reader. Only contact us is you are interested in promotions, raises and profits. The author wrote “Speed Reading For
Professionals”, published by Barron’s
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