– from Range book by David Epsteinīecause personality changes more than we expect with time, experience, and different contexts, we are ill-equipped to make ironclad long-term goals when our past consists of little time, few experiences, and a narrow range of contexts. – from Range book by David EpsteinĪ mind kept wide open will take something from every new experience. Successful problem solvers are more able to determine the deep structure of a problem before they proceed to match a strategy to it. It also allows us to understand that which we cannot see at all. – from Range book by David EpsteinĪnalogical thinking takes the new and makes it familiar, or takes the familiar and puts it in a new light, and allows humans to reason through problems they have never seen in unfamiliar contexts. Knowledge with enduring utility must be very flexible, composed of mental schemes that can be matched to new problems. That is what a rapidly changing, wicked world demands – conceptual reasoning skills that can connect new ideas and work across contexts. – from Range book by David EpsteinĮveryone needs habits of mind that allow them to dance across disciplines.
In the wicked world, with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack.
Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. 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.
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