• depth/breadth
• Calculus of grit see gumption
  • The generalist/specialist distinction is an extrinsic coordinate system for mapping human potential
  • The problem with this generalist/specialist or depth/breadth extrinsically situated creativity models is that the extrinsic frames of references are getting increasingly dynamic, chaotic and murky. To the point that the distinction is becoming useless. Nobody seems to know which way is up, which way is down, and which way is sideways. If you guess and get lucky, the answers may change next year, leaving you disoriented once more.
  • The usual response to this environment is to invoke notions of multi-disciplinarity.
  • I have come to the conclusion that if I cannot trace a coherent history of at least 20 years for something that claims the label "discipline," it isn’t one.
  • The problem with this though is that increasing amounts of valuable stuff is happening outside disciplines by this definition. It isn’t multi-disciplinary. It isn’t inter-disciplinary. It is simply non-disciplinary. It’s in the miscellaneous folder. It is so fluid that it resists extrinsic organization.
  • So given that most excitement centers around short-lived fruitfly non-disciplines, how do people even manage to log 10,000 deliberate practice hours in any coherent journey to mastery? Can you jump across three or four fruit-fly domains over the course of a decade and still end up with mastery of something, even if you cannot define it?
  • Yes. If you drop extrinsic frames of reference altogether.
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