Breadth Of Training Predicts Breadth Of Transfer

• Winners quit fast and often when a plan is not a good fit. The sunken cost fallacy might try to sway our decisions, but the “willingness to jetisson” (quit and switch paths when they are no longer a quality match for us) is a key trait for late specializati...

• The best forecasters view their ideas as hypothesis that need testing; they want help from others through debate to falsify their notions.
• Science curiosity is important, as is being engaged in active open - ...

• The process of finding solutions should involve looking far outside the focused domain of the problem, combating the Einstellung effect (when people tend to employ familiar solutions even if better ones are available).
• Diverse backgrounds - not alike...

The inspiring from this book is about why generalists will flourish.

’Kind vs ‘wicked’ learning environments

Learning environments can be split into two:

• The kind on...

• When learning, one should aim for a “desirable level of difficulty”, i.e. having obstacles that make learning difficult in the short term, but much more beneficial in the long term; make mistakes, think, conceptualize.

Modern work demands knowledge transfer and abstract thinking, things which are not being actively taught in our highly - specialized academic curriculums.

It’s harder to be creative in a field the longer you have been studying it. It is best to insist on ‘having one foo...

• People have a “end of history illusion”, thinking that they have changed a lot in the past but will no longer change much, which makes them more rigid in their career path choices, being inclined to aim for early specialization to get a head start. However, this “plan - and ...

• Fast and easy is a no - go when it comes to learning. Painful and uncompetitive as it may sound, slow and difficult is the proper approach to learning.
• We want knowledge that is durable (it sticks) and flexible (it can be applied broadly).

All the information we need is already out in the wild, we just need to integrate it.

A successful company culture is reached when an informal chain of communication - which facilities access to meaningful information- meets a forma...