polyartists & multiplicity
Maintaining focus becomes easier because ideas become less interesting. “Experts literally experience a different world within their specialism,” Tom Morgan pointed out . Experts perceive more layers and details, they see patterns and nuances invisible to others. Their experience of the same domain is richer, more interesting, and filled with an... See more
Maslow's Lighthouse: Strive for Mastery, Not Money (the money will follow)
Ness Labs • Liminal Creativity
nothing sparks creativity and innovation like not being constrained by artificial categories. statistics. data science. genomics. science. art. photography. cinema. essay writing. having a chat with a drunk stranger at the bus stop.
Focusing on a single specialization sharpens expertise more than mixing many ideas, so diversity might just dilute deep mastery.
there’s many people who do many things somewhat successfully. Lots of people are artists. Lots of people have nuanced views of the world, based on their unique collection of experiences. So why should any one person do multiple things? If you spread your focus, there will always be some people doing whatever you do better than you. But if it was
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Ideas follow inspiration, which comes freely at a friendly intersection of diverse multidisciplinary, multi-industry, multicultural thinking – exactly the kind of thinking that our focused lives tend not to have enough of.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Should we become specialists or polymaths? Is there a balance we should pursue? There is no single answer. Whether we’re conscious of this or not, it’s also a decision we have to make and re-make over and over again. Every day, we have to decide where to invest our time — do we become better at what we do or learn something new?