What is the Measure of Expertise?
And What’s Not?
Jan 24, 2022
Expertise can’t be measured by how many books you read or wrote.
It can’t be measured by the number of people listening to you.
It can’t even be measured by how much time you spent on your field.
Expertise can only be measured by how many high-quality problems you faced, how deep you struggled with them and how hard you found the solutions for them.
Easy-to-solve problems don’t make anyone an expert.
