Podcast S6E146: Roger Kneebone - How to become an expert

In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Prof Roger Kneebone. Prof Kneebone is the author of Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery and directs the Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science (ICCESS) in London. See the full epsiode at We speak about what it takes to go from beginner to expert, the hurdles and changes along the way and the impact of expertise on creative thinking. Topics covered in this episode: 00:03:00 - What it means to be an expert, and how it requires wisdom 00:05:00 - The apprentice, journeyman, master progression 00:07:00 - What it feels like to go through these stages, across various industries 00:08:45 - The starting stages of being a journeyman may feel quite boring and frustrating as you build the fundamentals 00:12:30 - Nobody cares about your accomplishments, they only care about what you can do for your audience 00:15:00 - The dangers of making errors when you are responsible for yourself 00:18:00 - The balance of repetition what has worked before and beginning to be creative 00:23:00 - You never reach the status of an pure expert who knows everything, you instead continually develop expertise 00:27:30 - You need to go a lot of time and deliberate practice before you reach mastery 00:31:00 - Building expertise almost always involves a support network around you 00:35:00 - The curse of expertis e and how it can make you less creative Links mentioned in this episode: Prof Kneebone's faculty page: Expert: Understanding the path to Mastery: Countercurrent podcast: Bonus: This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at *

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Podcast S6E146: Roger Kneebone - How to become an expert is an episode from Idea to Value - Creativity and Innovation with Nick Skillicorn by Nick Skillicorn.

This episode is 41:21 long.

This episode was published on Jan 13, 2022.

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