Sign in with Facebook
Ben
https://www.goodreads.com/bbroeckx
All humans are programmed to perceive the truth, and we don’t need a language to do this. But in order to express the truth, we need to use a language, and that expression is our art.
“The world is not golf, and most of it isn’t even tennis.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“It’s easier for a jazz musician to learn to play classical literature than for a classical player to learn how to play jazz,” he said. “The jazz musician is a creative artist, the classical musician is a re-creative artist.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“The outside view is deeply counterintuitive because it requires a decision maker to ignore unique surface features of the current project, on which they are the expert, and instead look outside for structurally similar analogies. It requires a mindset switch from narrow to broad.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“In the face of the unexpected, the range of available analogies helped determine who learned something new.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“Struggling to hold on to information and then recall it had helped the group distracted by math problems transfer the information from short-term to long-term memory.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ben’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
81 books
|
39 friends
0 books
|
12 friends
0 books
|
22 friends
0 books
|
44 friends
3 books
|
22 friends
2 books
|
11 friends
32 books
|
6 friends
1 book
|
16 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Ben
Lists liked by Ben
