It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
In the age of the specialist, the generalsit gets short shrift.
A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section.
None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.
Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.
People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they're also incredible generalists - something businesses that want to grow need.
The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region to the next. Still, specialists do emerge.
