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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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Evaluating an array of options before letting intuition reign is a trick for the wicked world.

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…successful problem solvers are more able to determine the deep structure of a problem before they proceed to match a strategy to it.

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Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury education; it is a central benefit.

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If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.

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Switchers are winners. It seems to fly in the face of hoary adages about quitting, and of far newer concepts in modern psychology.

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…knowing when to quit is such a big strategic advantage that every single person, before undertaking an endeavor, should enumerate conditions under which they should quit.

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…quitting takes a lot more guts than continuing to be carried along like debris on an ocean wave.

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Having invested time or money in something, we are loath to leave it, because that would mean we had wasted our time or money, even though it is already gone.

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…a mind kept wide open will take something from every new experience.

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Change, Certainty

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