
David Epstein: Curiosity as a Calling S2 E11
Meditations with Zohar
The Importance of Diversification
One of the topics that comes up a lot in these discussions is diversification. I have a more positive view of diversification which is integration and so it's not so much a matter of trying to cover yourself but more almost the idea of elevating any particular thing you know by creating more connections to other things. No I like that I was Adam Alter the psychologist NYU has a brand new book out and he wrote about the diversification in the sense of you don't want to put all your identity eggs in in one basket because what you know for sure is that you're wrong. So sometimes I think about the various experiences or sort of selves I've been as chapters in a book but they
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