A generalist thinks laterally across fields, brings ranging curiosity to many topics, and solves problems by connecting ideas from different domains. Unlike specialists who go deep, generalists bring breadth and the habit of linking disparate solutions together.
Probably the most important thing that a generalist is, is they think laterally. And so they're constantly looking across. And so there's no definition of a generalist. And so I went ahead and created one, at least for my purposes. Yeah. And that would include having a ranging curiosity, whereas a specialist really needs to go deep and become an expert. And we need that and we want that. A generalist will, will have a ranging curiosity. They'll want to know about a lot of things and they might want know about a lot of people. They also tend to solve problems in a nonlinear way. So they're thinking laterally and they might be connecting dots. They might think of, oh, this is a kind of an interesting solution that worked over here. Why don't we bring it and try it over here instead? So
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