From Bill Nygren at Oakmark Funds:
In the book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World, author David Epstein argues that many fields have gone so overboard with specialisation that generalists are now the more valuable problem solvers. Epstein states that “highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident — a dangerous combination”...
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