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Expert in a Year

Our Challenges

Table Tennis

The original Expert in a Year challenge took place throughout 2014 and aimed to answer one question – with enough practice is it possible to master table tennis in a year?

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

On Monday 13th April 2015 Sam started his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu challenge, called “BJJ in a Year”. He finished the year with a few wins under his white belt and plans to continue training.

Running

On Saturday 18th April 2015 Ben started his year of running, originally called “Marathon in a Year”. After a year of ups and downs, he finished his first ever half marathon in 88:48.

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The Expert in a Year Manifesto

The Expert in a Year Manifesto

Here are our beliefs about expertise, talent, practice, and mastery. We recommend you have a read of this before doing anything else. We discuss ideas such as the 10,000-hour rule and our own invention, the threshold of impressiveness.

The Expert in a Year Community
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The Expert in a Year Community

Soon after Expert in a Year went viral (in February 2015) an expertinayear subreddit was created on the social network Reddit. We are not actively involved in running and moderating the discussion but it’s a great way to get inspiration and motivation from other people’s challenges.

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Ben Larcombe & Sam Priestley

The Team

Ben Larcombe
Table Tennis & Running
Sam Priestley
Table Tennis & Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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10 Lessons From a Year of Running

A year ago today, on Saturday 18th April 2015, I started what was initially called “Marathon in a Year”. I’d always had this vague ambition to run a marathon and …

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