Trying things is the answer to find your talent.
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Kõik mõtted: Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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To recap: work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be smash hit in the library of human knowledge.
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… it is difficult to accept that the best learning road is slow, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later. It is so deeply counterintuitive that it fools learners themselves, both about their own progress and their teacher’s skills.
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The parents with creative children made their opinions known after their kids did something they didn’t like, the just did not proscribe it beforehand.
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While improvising, musicians do pretty much the opposite of consciously identifying errors and and stopping to correct them.
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… that everyone needs habits of mind that allow them to dance across disciplines.
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The successful adapters were excellent at taking knowledge from one pursuit and applying it creatively to another, and at cognitive entrenchment. … They drew outside experiences and analogies to interrupt their inclination toward a previous solution that may no longer work. Their skill was in avoiding the same old patterns. In the wicked world, with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be life hack.
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… Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.
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… that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. This is the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
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I dove into work showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that the actually get worse with experience, even while becoming confident—a dangerous combination.
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… those who later made successful transitions had broader training and kept multiple “career streams” open even as they pursued a primary speciality.
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