Do You have 10 Years Experience or Just 1 Year 10x?

Once a skill becomes instinctive, performance improvement also tends to level off. Without intelligent intervention, we slip into autopilot mode, believing we are gathering in experience when in reality we are merely locking in rote routine. Familiarity is not synonymous with competence, and neither is self-reported comfort levels nor exhibited confidence. Once labeled ‘expert’, we humans...