So, whether to become a professional in one field or to be good at all fields, so that you can develop better as a general?
The book Boundaries of Growth tells us the answer. The author of this book is David Epstein, the best-selling author of the new york Times 1 issue. He studied the real cases of first-class successful people in various fields in the world and found an interesting phenomenon: "generalists" have more possibilities of success than "professionals", and the exploration beyond the scope of ability will be the key to the decisive battle in the future pluralistic era.
This book tells us that generalists have more opportunities to broaden their knowledge, develop themselves and find their own way of development than professionals. Life has no limit, only the future can be expected.
0 1. Do children who win at the starting line have to run to the finish line first?
Children should win at the starting line. This widely circulated parenting sentence is the ardent hope of many parents for their children.
Parents plan blueprints and pave the runway for their children too early.
The media once reported the story of a "child prodigy": A mother in Wuhan spent 1.2 million yuan to enroll her child in a training class in five years to prevent her child from losing at the starting line. When she was five years old, her child finished the second grade of primary school. When the child was in the first grade, his grades were excellent, but in the second grade, Xiaojie's grades began to decline, from the top student in the class to the middle student. Gradually, he began to be tired of learning and distracted in class. Before the third grade, everyone disappeared.
The boundary of growth tells us that winning a child at the starting line does not mean running to the finish line first. Anything is possible.
Under the guidance of professional teachers, these children got excellent grades at first. But in the long run, the bottleneck period appears very early, and the follow-up effect is not very ideal.
So the so-called "winning at the starting line" may be just a flash in the pan. As the saying goes, it takes ten years to plant trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Life is not a sprint, but a marathon. A child who wins at the starting line does not necessarily run to the finish line first.
What you want to teach your children is not a closed skill that leads for a while, but an open advantage that benefits for life. Children should be allowed to receive more extensive learning, find their best fields and go further.
02. Broaden your knowledge and find the best match.
There is a saying that the bigger the island of knowledge, the longer the ocean line of curiosity.
Broaden your knowledge, find your best choice, deepen on the basis of erudition, and you will go further.
Ren Yueli, a "Xidan girl", once became famous by singing on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening. After that, I walked around Shang Yan.
She realized her dream of becoming a singer, but it didn't stop her from realizing her dream of starting a business across banks. With the aura of a singer, she constantly polished herself in a wide range of knowledge, opened up her own new channel and started her own toothpaste business. So far, she has been worth over 100 million yuan, standing in the square of new york Times as a female entrepreneur.
Hua Chenyu, who is also a genius in music, is not only loved by everyone for his singing skills, but also a composer and lyricist. At the same time, many musicians like him usually master a variety of musical instruments instead of specializing in 1.
Excellent talents are not just the work itself. Andy Lau, for example, spans the fields of music, film and television, and has the talent of singer, lyricist, actor and producer.
Everyone is unique, read widely, broaden their knowledge and find the best matching field. There is no end to growth, and you can achieve one goal after another in your life.
03. Growth has no boundaries, but the future can be expected.
Tolstoy once wrote in War and Peace: "His eyes are always fixed on the whole manor, not a certain department of the manor ... so Nikolai's agricultural management has achieved the most brilliant achievements."
If a person wants to achieve his goal, it is not enough to rely solely on intensive training and the content of the goal.
To put it simply, if you want to master an English major, you not only need to use English fluently in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, but also need to learn cultural background and literacy, including western literature and cultural knowledge. With this knowledge, you can really internalize English in your heart.
Simple subjects need to broaden their knowledge in order to make their majors proficient. What's more, if you want to become an expert in a certain field, you can't do it without extensive knowledge accumulation.
Darwin's great theory of biological evolution is inseparable from his extensive knowledge. His theory had a great influence on the development of anthropology, psychology and philosophy.
Jobs, the "father of Apple", also said that the beautiful fonts of Apple computers benefited from the calligraphy classes he took in college.
Alina Zhang, a best-selling author, is often asked that you are an expert in time management, but you know a lot about brand building, business model and nutrition theory. Alina Zhang founded the off-duty gas station in order to consult and learn from big coffee in various fields and broaden his knowledge.
I once heard that this man is proficient in all kinds of martial arts and is a representative of all-rounder. Accumulating experience in different fields will not only effectively improve your creativity, but also the knowledge you have learned in various fields will serve you in choosing the best matching field.
In the rapidly changing times, it is more important to try deliberately than to practice deliberately, so that you can draw inferences and accumulate wealth. Cross-border is for better lifelong growth. Growth has no boundaries, and the future can only be expected.
Write at the end:
The book Boundaries of Growth spans many fields such as sports, education, music, astronomy, art medicine, etc. It lists a large number of celebrity cases and deeply analyzes the pace that generalists are more suitable for social development.
It is difficult for experts to replace generalists. Specialization in the technical field can make you achieve excellent results. But analogy can enrich your different life.
We need to forge ourselves into a multi-functional Swiss army knife, and constantly expand our capabilities through cross-border-growth has no boundaries and the future is endless.