Nithesh S

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Normal People

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Anthony Bourdain

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nithesh’s Quotes

“If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

tags: career, dating, specialization

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“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization”
― David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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“Whether chemists, physicists, or political scientists, the most successful problem solvers spend mental energy figuring out what type of problem they are facing before matching a strategy to it, rather than jumping in with memorized procedures.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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“Seeding the soil for generalists and polymaths who integrate knowledge takes more than money. It takes opportunity.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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“The precise person you are now is fleeting, just like all the other people you’ve been. That feels like the most unexpected result, but it is also the most well documented.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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