
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Commoncog • Expertise is ‘Just’ Pattern Matching
However, we know that high structure-builders and rule learners are more successful in transferring their learning to unfamiliar situations than are low…
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Mark A. McDaniel • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
In one of the most cited studies of expert problem solving ever conducted, an interdisciplinary team of scientists came to a pretty simple conclusion: successful problem solvers are more able to determine the deep structure of a problem before they proceed to match a strategy to it. Less successful problem solvers are more like most students in the
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Without underlying theory, you get tools which might work in one situation, but you don’t know why. They might fail in other situations, but you don’t know why either. Ultimately the tool’s usefulness may depend on unreproducible aspects of a particular person’s skill.