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To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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Like chess masters and firefighters, premodern villagers relied on things being the same tomorrow as they were yesterday. They were extremely well prepared for what they had experienced before, and extremely poorly equipped for everything else. Their very thinking was highly specialized in a manner that the modern world has been telling us is incre... See more
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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solution that may no longer work. Their skill was in avoiding the same old patterns. In the wicked world, with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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The early specializers often won in the short-term, and lost in the long run. Workers who received general education, the economists concluded, were better positioned to adapt to change in a wicked world, where work next year might not look like work last year.
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
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But in a complex world, it’s impossible to know what might be useful in the future. It’s important, therefore, to spread our cognitive bets. Curious people take risks,
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
To paraphrase David Epstein, to become better strategists and problem solvers we need to learn to “dance across disciplines”, to develop a "high tolerance for ambiguity" and to hone our "ability to connect disparate pieces of information in new ways", because “our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability t... See more
Zoe • The Magpie Mind
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The more constrained and repetitive a challenge, the more likely it will be automated, while great rewards will accrue to those who can take conceptual knowledge from one problem or domain and apply it in an entirely new one. The ability to apply knowledge broadly comes from broad training.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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