A discussion in office made me realize that I (and maybe some others too) think of myself as a generalist. Maybe I even take pride in it.
I want to know about many subsystems in my project. I want to be able to play many instruments. I want to be with many girls. I want to be a writer, musician, singer, entrepreneur, actor and spiderman.
Yet I am d>none of the above.
So what am I doing wrong:
Laozi tells the secret of success is to be a specialist (It's a cartoon - will take seconds to look/read)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385472595/ref=sib_rdr_prev2_ex3/104-6804031-7899169?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00B&j=1&ns=1#reader-page
This blog has started social networks and an anonymous group!
Mama - Don't let your baby become a generalist:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001978.php
Erwin Scroedinger and Jose Ortega Y Gasset's comments on why a specialist can easily become a demon (from Knowledge Management Research Group):
http://kmr.nada.kth.se/cm/generalist-specialist.html
Hope we all be what we were meant to be.
Hope we all can accept what we are.
3 comments:
Hope we all be what we want to be.
i'll drink to that, siddo
since what we were meant to be is what we be, what's to hope for baby?
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