{"id":16769,"date":"2015-08-16T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=16769"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:51:17","slug":"rise-of-the-expert-generalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/rise-of-the-expert-generalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Expert Generalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoyed this profile of Charlie Munger on Medium<\/a>, especially the description of the Expert Generalist, a rival to the 10,000 hour specialist:<\/p>\n

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The Rise Of The Expert-Generalist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The rival argument to the 10,000 hour rule is the expert-generalist approach. Orit Gadiesh, chairman of Bain & Co, who coined the term, describes the expert-generalist as:<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone who has the ability and curiosity to master and collect expertise in many different disciplines, industries, skills, capabilities, countries, and topics., etc. He or she can then, without necessarily even realizing it, but often by design:<\/p>\n

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  1. Draw on that palette of diverse knowledge to recognize patterns and connect the dots across multiple areas.<\/li>\n
  2. Drill deep to focus and perfect the thinking.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The concept is commonly represented by this model of the \u201cT-shaped individual\u201d:<\/p>\n

    \"NewImage\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Enjoyed this profile of Charlie Munger on Medium, especially the description of the Expert Generalist, a rival to the 10,000 hour specialist: The Rise Of The Expert-Generalist The rival argument to the 10,000 hour rule is the expert-generalist approach. Orit Gadiesh, chairman of Bain & Co, who coined the term, describes the expert-generalist as: \u201cSomeone … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,130,132,136,138,139,143,14,42,17,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-16769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-business-psychology","category-career-development","category-consultancy","category-creativity","category-critical-thinking","category-economics","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-science","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17531,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/michael-mauboussin\/","url_meta":{"origin":16769,"position":0},"title":"Michael Mauboussin","author":"Limbic","date":"March 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Just heard an interview with Michael Mauboussin on The Knowledge Project podcast (a Farnum Street blog production) and he was super interesting. 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