Ben Scofield

16 Feb 2018

The Winter Olympics are on! We’re in the first week of watching athletes who’ve spent years honing their skills and now get to amaze us with …

31 Jan 2018

I had so much fun doing my Reading and Podcast years in review for 2017 that I’ve decided to do more frequent look-backs this year. I don’t …

27 Jan 2018

One of the (many) things that makes research on the highest levels of expertise challenging is that — by definition — there aren’t that many …

14 Jan 2018

So, my last few posts started to describe a theory of expertise as something like: the set of factors acquired over time that help someone …

30 Dec 2017

I had a lot of fun doing my post about my reading for the past year , so I figured I’d take a shot at doing something similar for my podcast …

28 Dec 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts — three years, to be exact — but I had a few goals going into this year that I wanted …

15 Nov 2017

So, in my last post I defined expertise as the set of acquired factors that contribute to success in a domain, and waved my hands at …

09 Nov 2017

If we’re talking about “expertise” instead of “experts,” it’s only natural to wonder what “expertise” actually is. Hold on to your butts, …