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The Expert Myth

Veritasium · 16M views · 2022-08-02 · 17:59

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Overview

Veritasium examines which experts have real expertise, drawing on chess research and work by Klein and Kahneman. It explains that expertise comes from pattern recognition built through deliberate practice in valid, feedback-rich environments.

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Frequently recommended in threads on learning, the 10,000 hours rule and deliberate practice as a clearer account of how expertise develops.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2022–2026

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Psychology & human behaviorEducation & learningChess, board games & puzzles
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lolinder · 2024-12 · Strong recommendation

It's absolutely pseudoscience. 10k hours doing what ? And why would we expect to see an approximately equal amount of time to achieve expertise across so many different human endeavors? Veritasium has a really good video on the subject [0], with a much more compelling explanation for what it takes to develop expertise. He comes up with 4 things, but the two that stood out the most to me are that the field needs to be deterministic—the more randomness is involved the less expertise is possible—and that the learner needs consistent and accurate feedback on what they get right and wrong. Absent those factors no number of hours will do you any good. [0] [VIDEO]

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angarg12 · 2023-07 · Strong recommendation

Deliberate practice is a well studied phenomenon. My favourite talk in the subject is this one from Veritasium [VIDEO]

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Zensynthium · 2022-10 · Strong recommendation

Derek from Veritasium had a pretty good video on becoming an expert in anything and I didn't see age as a blocking factor. I'd say go for it! Also check out the video here, it's worth a watch [VIDEO]

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