For the wicked world, you want a really broad training base, what scientists call a sampling period, where you're forming conceptual frameworks and abstract ideas that you can bend to the activity as the activity itself changes.
In the 20th Century the biggest contributions came from Specialists. In the Information Age the biggest contributions started coming from Generalists.
Generalists are people who spread their work across various tech domains often taking something from one and bringing it to another area where it was seen as extraordinary.
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Through this video, the best-seller author, David Epstein, demonstrates why divergent thinkers (or generalists) beat prodigies in the actual changing world.
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