Just about finished the book Range by David Epstein
Highly recommend you read as humans— as scientists, as athletes, as businessmen and entrepreneurs, as musicians, as artists, as thinking problem solvers.
I’d make it the next book you read.
Took me about 10 hours to read, and I was filling the margins with notes.
Excellent research, anecdotes, clear writing, concise conclusions with profound implications.
This book aligns with my attitude toward voracious consumption of unrelated knowledge and understanding from disparate domains, which can then be abstracted into mental models and synthesized into robust systematic structural tools for rapid, effective problem solving.
The author is well read, and really does a great job illustrating what it means to be a generalist, and why learning slow, struggling, experimenting, and meandering your way through various domains and skills, ultimately produces the most creative minds tasked with solving novel, or as the author calls them, wicked problems.
Specialists are the best tacticians.
Generalists are the best strategists.
Specialists win the battle.
Generalists win the war.
Specialists excel when the rules are known.
Generalists excel when the rules are unknown.
Highly recommend. It’s just such an accessible read.
Intuitive, yet profound.
William Dare 