
RANGE: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialists’ World
The Next Big Idea
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Is There a Relationship Between Education and Learning?
There's no relationship. If something is too easy then maybe you like to do it but that doesn't mean that you're not learning much. I don't want to rag on schools too much because everyone thinks that education has gotten worse since their day. But if you look at the test questions that test the same level in the 60s it was like rate times time problem just apply it. And now it's like these complex word problems that require multiple steps. So school is actually doing better it's just the challenge is how past that. With everything moving so fast how do we know when to jump on something that intrigues us or excites us and ride it for a while? Presumably
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