David Epstein on “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”
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The Importance of a Broader Cognitive Toolbox in Range
Olympic athletes need to understand that the rules for life are different from the rules for sports. David Perry: We have to be careful about extrapolating from relatively kind learning environments to the much more wicked ones most of us are engaged in. He says we get a broader cognitive toolbox by doing a range of things, by having experience in a wide variety of things.perry: There's a classic finding that can be summarized as breadth of training predicts breadth of transfer.
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