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Breadth In Knowledge
Psychologist and prominent creativity researcher Dean Keith Simonton observed, "rather than obsessively focusing on a narrow topic, creative achievers tend to have broad interests. This breadth often supports insights that cannot be attributed to domain specific expertise alone."
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Learn And Apply
The successful adapters were excellent at taking knowledge from one pursuit and applying it creatively to another, and at avoiding cognitive entrenchment.
In the wicked world with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack
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Hypercorrection Effect
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
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Deep Learning
The best learning road is slow (facilitated by short term struggle but long term gain, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later
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Don't Feel Behind
Approach your own personal voyage and projects like Michelangelo approached a block of marble, willing to learn and adjust as you go, and even to abandon a pervious goal and change directions entirely should the need arise. Finally, remember that there is nothing inherently wrong with the specialization.
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