Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers: The Story of Success explains that it takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in any field of endeavor. In other words, you effectively need to spend 10,000 or more hours working on a skill or developing your knowledge in a specific area before you are able to achieve a level of proficiency that is greater than 99.9 percent of the general population. As such, you effectively become an expert within this field, which makes you the go-to source for expertise in this area.
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