And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like failing behind.
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The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benfits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasing incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
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The difference between winning at Jeopardy! and curing all cancer is that we know the answer to Jeopardy! questions. With cancer, we're still working on posing the right questions in the first place.
- Excerpts from the book I am currently reading - Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World
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The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benfits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasing incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
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The difference between winning at Jeopardy! and curing all cancer is that we know the answer to Jeopardy! questions. With cancer, we're still working on posing the right questions in the first place.
- Excerpts from the book I am currently reading - Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World
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