Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success

[dimsum]

Wait...did the CAF accidentally get it right with the random out-of-trade and staff postings?

Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success

A head start doesn't always ... well, help you get ahead. With examples from sports, technology and economics, journalist David Epstein shares how specializing in a particular skill too early in life may undermine your long-term development -- and explains the benefits of a "sampling period"...

www.ted.com

 

[FSTO]

^^
Only by luck and incompetence.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Thanks for sharing, that was interesting. Pretty funny to also see the Theranos founder's TED talk being up there as well; that worked out less well for her.

Really glad our education system still makes everyone take a broad range of classes outside of the core focus; I hated some of those classes at the time, but generally learned something out of it. Similarly the out of core jobs were the same, and even if I mostly learned I hate policy jobs, still learned some things that have helped out later on.

I figure though when you get folks like Wayne Gretzky saying kids should try out all the sports though, more parents would listen, but you still have all the summer hockey camps and whatnot.