Nithesh S

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Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Kitchen Confidential 25th Anniversary Edition.

by Anthony Bourdain

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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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“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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“The more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities.*”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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“In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous.”
― 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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