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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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You have people walking around with all the knowledge of humanity on their phone, but they have no idea how to integrate it. We don’t train people in thinking or reasoning.”
the childhoods of professionals as “one of osmosis,” not formal instruction.
Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.
As with excessive hint-giving, it will, as a group of psychologists put it, “produce misleadingly high levels of immediate mastery that will not survive the passage of substantial periods of time.”
“variety of base domains,” which foster analogical thinking and conceptual connections that can help students categorize the type of problem they are facing.
Space between practice sessions creates the hardness that enhances learning.
Spacing
or their biography of Jackson Pollock that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Agreement is not what they are after; they are after aggregating perspectives, lots of them.