• latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Also aids in bolstering intuition and the comprehension of nuance! Knowing “a little about a lot of things” means a very broad perspective which covers a lot of contingencies. It’s a very good position from which to study the big picture, imo!

    Edit: with the risk of getting lost in details, from personal experience.

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      It’s a shame the concept of an “ideas man” has been ridiculed for so long, because that’s precisely what it lets you be good at.
      If you can put together a jack of all trades to spawn vaguely sensible ideas, and someone who hyperfocuses on a field of interest, you can just churn out good ideas that are well on the way to being implementable.

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        the problem is that for every ideas man, you need at least 20 people to actually do the work. And that work is a lot more tedious than being the one who comes up with the ideas

        and of course, most people can’t tell the difference between a “good ideas man” and a “bad ideas man”, and there are a lot more of the latter