Klein shows that experience counts in certain fields. In a 2009 paper, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein explored the connection between experience and performance. In many walks of life, building up experience in just one field doesn’t help performance. The writer and surgeon Atul Gawande notes that when doctors joke about right-ear surgeons, we shouldn’t be so quick to assume they don’t actually exist.īut is specializing really the way to go? Simply put, no. Rather, they specialize in cancer of a particular organ. Oncologists, for example, now rarely focus on cancer alone. In fact, it’s also true of academia, our complex financial system and medicine. This trend toward specialization doesn’t only show up in the sports world. Tiger Woods embodies a now popular idea that the key to success in life is to specialize, get a head start and practice intensively. Later that same year, he entered and won his first tournament in the under ten category. At two, he showed off his golf drive on national television. At the age of ten months old, Tiger Woods picked up his first miniature golf club.
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