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David Epstein | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in Today’s Specialized World

Hidden Forces

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The Importance of Abstract Behavior in Learning

We expect things to behave a certain way when we swipe, when we scroll. And that's sort of universal across applications, those sort of get embedded in there. But it's very different than working in an industrial economy which is not pre-modern. Even some of our grandparents could expect a life where they had a discrete period of training and could then apply that forever in the work. Well, that is absolutely not the case now,. Like we're having to relearn and reinvent over and over and over again.

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