“We need more generalists. Generalists outperform specialists in many tasks.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“Polymaths possess something that monomaths do not. Time and again, innovations come from a fresh eye or from another discipline. Most scientists devote their careers to solving the everyday problems in their specialism. Everyone knows what they are and it takes ingenuity and perseverance to crack them. But breakthroughs—the sort of idea that opens up whole sets of new problems—often come from other fields. The work in the early 20th century that showed how nerves work and, later, how DNA is structured originally came from a marriage of physics and biology.” – Edward Carr, “The Last Days of the Polymath”
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Yeah for the generalist! Anything else is too specific.
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