David Epstein on “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”
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The Importance of Mixing Styles in Learning
Evidence that mixing up styles is helpful shows up in basically everywhere it's been studied, even from things as seemingly just sort of fun as if you wanted to be able to recognize a painting that you'd never seen before. So I think there's evidence that it shows up for kind of any type of learning. The problem is it tends to be slower at first. And we judge our own learning based on the sense of ease or fluidity.
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