The question of wether to be an expert or all-rounder is highly contextual and everyone should find their own answer through their world view and goals. I believe humans are highly multivariate with multiple interests instead of a singular niche attraction which makes us generalists or all-rounders instead of specialists by design. We can’t be reduced to a single characteristic or interest.
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The video is based on my own experiences as well as the following books:
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
Mastery, Robert Greene
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro & Summary
2:48 Specialists
5:20 Generalists
9:46 Specialized Generalist & My Model
13:24 Courage beats Credentials