Breath Beats Depth
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By starting with a sampling period, where you try out different fields and then specialize, you will increase your chances of a better Good decisions match the best option for both sides between your desires, your skills and your expertise, instead of committing too early to a specific field, creating Past choices constrain future options and behavior for yourself.
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Having knowledge from different fields increases your chances to use what you've learn edin different settings, which is the key to creativity. Good creative output requires interdisciplinary. Use your Curiosity is the joy of filling knowledge gaps to find and develop your unique combination of skills Unique skill combinations create competitive and creative advantage
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Early overspecialization can lead to worse results even in your own field. Since you committed early to one field, it's likely that:
- short over long term tradeoff - you traded Learning must continue constantly throughout life for "quick wins", which means that you won't be as open or able to learn new things that will improve your performance, while forgetting things that are crucial to it. Since everyone is getting better, you will lose your Finding your unique strength creates sustainable advantage
- one track thinking - If you are only familiar with one topic, most likely that you will see each problem through the same lens Binary thinking reduces complexity to false dichotomies. If economics is your hammer, then everything is a nail that can be solved with incentives and deregulation.
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