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“Everyone needs habits of mind that allow them to dance across disciplines.” (Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Quotes)
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“In product development,” Taylor and Greve concluded, “specialization can be costly.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“In the late 1960s, future Nobel laureate economist Theodore Schultz argued that his field had done well to show that higher education increased worker productivity, but that economists had neglected the role of education in allowing individuals to delay specialization while sampling and finding out who they are and where they fit.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Knowledge is a double edged sword. It allows you to do some things, but it also makes you blind to other things that you could do.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Sheer amount of lesson or practice time is not a good indicator of exceptionality.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Struggling to generate an answer on your own, even a wrong one, enhances subsequent learning.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Technological inventors increased their creative impact by accumulating experience in different domains, compared to peers who drilled more deeply into one; they actually benefited by proactively sacrificing a modicum of depth for breadth as their careers progressed.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The “ plan-and-implement” model the idea that we should first make a long-term plan and execute without deviation, as opposed to the “ test-and-learn” model is entrenched in depictions of geniuses. Popular lore holds that the sculptor Michelangelo would see a full figure in a block of marble before he ever touched it, and simply chip away the excess stone to free the figure inside. It is an exquisitely beautiful image.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The bigger the picture, the more unique the potential human contribution. Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“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, hyper specialization.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The more hints that were available during training, the better the monkeys performed during early practice, and the worse they performed on test day.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The professed necessity of hyper specialization forms the core of a vast, successful, and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sports and beyond.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“When all you have is a volcanologist, I learned, every extinction looks like a volcano.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Whether or not experience inevitably led to expertise, they agreed, depended entirely on the domain in question.”
David Epstein
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
