generalists

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-35/

Maybe I was a little ahead of my time in my educational choices?  While my job title has often included the word "specialist," my preference would be to consider myself a generalist.  I majored in English back in the early and mid-1980s at least in part because it was the widest ranging, most general major I could find.  It allowed me to dip into everything from accounting classes to journalism to computer science while drinking deeply in the large pool of English literature.  Generalism is probably a healthy stance to take.  I see it as being in a room with lots and lots of doors, none of them locked to me because I have a master key.

David Epstein's book, "Range" is on my list of things I want to read for this very reason.