- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Career tips, Generalist vs specialist
- Author:: Salman Ansari
- Link:: The Polymath Playbook
- Source date:: 2020-07-12
- Finished date:: 2020-09-06
Un tipo que ha optado por hacer muchas cosas diferentes y explica que es lo que tiene sentido ahora para diferenciarse… que la especialización viene de la era industrial y la estabilidad, pero en un contexto precario no tiene sentido. Pero dice haber tardado en que esto diera beneficios. Tienes que aplicar esos conocimientos, en cualquier caso.
The lack of freedom might be a worthy sacrifice in exchange for job security. But therein lies the problem: few companies can actually guarantee long-term stability. Many workers already face ambiguity with their job security due to the impending effects of automation. Now, with the tornado of change brought about by the COVID pandemic, the brittleness of even large corporations’ stability has become apparent. So how do we survive these waves of change? Adaptability
One of the challenges with specialization is that it becomes harder to compete over time. This is a bit counter-intuitive. At first you might think the more ‘specialized’ you become, the more ‘rare’ your skillset is and thus, the better you are in terms of competition.
I believe it’s important to have at least one strong foundational pursuit (in my case it’s engineering). That way you can explore other areas while always having something to fall back on. You need to work at something for many years before you really start to hit the meaningful learnings. Make sure you’ve refined your mental models before moving on to try and combine them with new ones.