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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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10 minute read
Published May 28, 2019
What you'll learn
Our culture specializes in specialization. But despite popular messaging and our obsession with efficiency, the modern world is not safe for specialists. It is the generalist who will thrive in a world that is unpredictable.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Experience doesn’t matter much if a small disruption of the status quo undermines it.
- 2 Never have people been so capable of abstraction and connecting dots—specialization fails to make the most of it.
- 3 Make sure you flirt with your possible selves before overcommitting to a particular trajectory.
- 4 Generalists are often better than so-called experts at predicting the future.
- 5 In a wicked world, the deliberate amateur—not the hyperspecialist with a head start—is king.
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