- The classic examples of spending a long time on a single problem all have an important caveat. They are mostly stories of "kind worlds" like Golf or Chess. - For more ambiguous problems that require more creativity you're better off not being so specialised. - Nobel Laureates for example have a significantly higher rate of being musicians or having an artistic hobby. - See also [[Hyper Specialisation as an Issue]] --- If you’re working on well-defined and well-understood problems, specialists work very, very well,” he told me. “As ambiguity and uncertainty increases, which is the norm with systems problems, breadth becomes increasingly important. - David Epstein in [[Range]]