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97. The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed

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How Polemathy and Creativity Are Related

CNN's John Sutter talks about how polemathy and creativity are related. He says there is a long continuum between two extremes of knowledge: hedgehogs and foxes. The generalists outperform the specialists in terms of predicting future events, he says. 'It's much more useful to be a generalist when you're approaching these kinds of questions,' writes Sutter.

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