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“AI systems are like savants.” They need stable structures and narrow worlds.” (Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Quotes)
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Almost none of the students in any major showed a consistent understanding of how to apply methods of evaluating truth they had learned in their own discipline to other areas.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Big innovation most often happens when an outsider who may be far away from the surface of the problem reframes the problem in a way that unlocks the solution.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Breadth of training predicts breadth of transfer. That is, the more contexts in which something is learned, the more the learner creates abstract models, and the less they rely on any particular example. Learners become better at applying their knowledge to a situation they’ve never seen before, which is the essence of creativity.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even though the solution to their problem happens to reside there.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Modern work demands knowledge transfer: the ability to apply knowledge to new situations and different domains. Our most fundamental thought processes have changed to accommodate increasing complexity and the need to derive new patterns rather than rely only on familiar ones. Our conceptual classification schemes provide a scaffolding for connecting knowledge, making it accessible and flexible.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Our work preferences and our life preferences do not stay the same, because we do not stay the same.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The labs in which scientists had more diverse professional backgrounds were the ones where more and more varied analogies were offered, and where breakthroughs were more reliably produced when the unexpected arose.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The precise person you are now is fleeting, just like all the other people you’ve been. That feels like the most unexpected result, but it is also the most well documented.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“We learn who we are only by living, and not before.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Whether chemists, physicists, or political scientists, the most successful problem solvers spend mental energy figuring out what type of problem they are facing before matching a strategy to it, rather than jumping in with memorized procedures.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“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.”
David Epstein
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
