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Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By David Epstein

Year Published: 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0735214484
Categories: Generalization, Specialization, Work

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Interleaving is a desirable difficulty that frequently holds for both physical and mental skills.

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Desirable difficulties like testing and spacing make knowledge stick. It becomes durable.

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Whether the task is mental or physical, interleaving improves the ability to match the right strategy to a problem.

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Before-our-eyes progress reinforces our instinct to do more of the same, but… the feedback teaches the wrong lesson.

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Learning deeply means learning slowly. The cult of the head start fails the learners it seeks to serve.

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Deep analogical thinking is the practice of recognizing conceptual similarities in multiple domains or scenarios that may seem to have little in common on the surface.

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Analogical thinking takes the new and makes it familiar, or takes the familiar and puts it in a new light, and allows humans to reason through problems they have never seen in unfamiliar contexts.

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In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous.

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Psychologists have shown repeatedly that the more internal details an individual can be made to consider, the more extreme their judgment becomes.

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Focusing narrowly on many fine details specific to a problem at hand feels like the exact right thing to do, when it is often exactly wrong.

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