Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one? Are there any books that explore the consequences of choosing each of them?
>>24682641Literally Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox
>>24682663Tell me more about it.
>>24682641I'd rather be Lord of my learning and no land beside.
>>24682683It's a worthless book. Berlin believes the arts fall in two categories, based on some fable, the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog is obsessing over a single theory or source of inspiration, and is very vertical, while foxes gather from a large horizon and are permeable to influences. It's not worth reading.
>>24682641>Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one?In real life it isn't really a ether or dichotomy.You can very realistically master one, or even a few things and still learn enough to be better than average or competent very broadly. Using myself as a example I have a very wide very broad range of skills and general knowledge about a comically large amount of things. However I also literally a karate master and expert level in one other martial art as well as a self defense expert well qualified to teach the subject. Even a hobbyist can eventually become a master if they consistently put the proper time and effort into learning something over years. Especially if they have qualified guidance and lots of feedback to continue improving.
>>24682694Every book is worth reading.
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>>24682734Avoiding a book because of disagreements with the author’s ideas is just stupidity, as is calling everything you disagree with a bait.
I haven't read it but I believe Scott Adams's book is about that. Basically if you reach the point of mastery in one thing (say piano for instance), congratulations now you're competing for fractions of dominance over the other people who have committed to going all in on this one thing.But if you become pretty good at several useful things, you're a more valuable asset to yourself and others.
>>24682739Attaching the file might help
>>24682641Anytime I hear somebody state "Jack of all trades, master of none" it is said by some loser who is not good at anything they do. It is a lazy way to dismiss improving in areas that are not your strong point. Having a good general knowledge of a field is almost always necessary to be an expert in a specific area.
>>24682641I'd rather be a master of all trades than jack off to one
>>24682857It was Nietszche who said you should become obsessed with one subject instead of trying to learn several different things, are you more intelligent than Nieszche?
>>24682951>are you more intelligent than Nieszche?Yes.
>>24682641Jack of all trades instantly wins.See learning multiple things will give you other skills in different fields as well and a lot of the skills you learn are transferrable to other skills and mediums (especielly in the creative sectors). Learning multiple of these skills will also gives you a grander view of the world too and makes you more wise. Not to mention you will be far more applicable to a wide range of problems, which gives you more socially and gives more to the world. People will respect and trust you more as people tend to blindly trust "experts" (social engineering 101).
>>24682736True, but there really are some books not worth reading depending on what you value and prioritize and even some books are never worth reading no matter what.
>>24682641>Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one?I'd rather be a master of one as long as the "one" was of great importance to society but alas I'm not obsessive enough to commit myself full-sail to one discipline.>Are there any books that explore the consequences of choosing each of them?Does it matter? You can't really choose anyways. Either you have the autistically unhealthy obsession to stick with one discipline for years or you don't, most don't, and even if you do have the obsession you don't choose your subject of focus. I've met a savant that was obsessed with remembering the dates of events but I don't believe he chose that, he was compelled by force beyond him; forces that perhaps few will ever experience.
>>24682695>Using myself as a example I have a very wide very broad range of skills and general knowledge
>>24683843Looks like someone is insecure in themselves.
>>24683273Yuck, determinism is gross.
>>24682641>Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one?I’m more of the former and it sucks
>>24682695You have some imagination for real for making all that shit up nigga
Depends on what you mean by jack of all trades. What's important is following your dao. It might take a single skill or a dozen but they must all point in the same direction.
>>24683943A karate nerd being a nerd in other regards isn't really surprising or unusual. It's not like he claimed to be a elite fighter or unbeatable bad ass. Probably teaches kids and little old ladies how to throw punches and kicks. Also the age of the internet makes dabbling in a little bit of everything all of the time pretty common.
>>24683943Depending on which school of karate and which other martial art he's claiming expertise in it could be the most physically unimpressive nerd shit you've ever heard of. Even if he's doing a serious combat sport plenty of people who reach instructor-level in one do the same in one or more overlapping or complimentary arts (e.g. many MMA gyms have separate muay thai and BJJ programs which compliment each other to form an MMA skill set; I wrestled in high school and did judo in college and benefited from the overlapping skill set while switching from one style of grappling to the other). Loads of people have trivia show tier "general knowledge about a comically large amount of things" and there are even books centered around educating people to this level. "Very wide very broad range of skills" probably just means he had a Dad growing up, paid attention in school, and has both work ethic and natural curiosity. There's nothing extraordinary about his claim; I know multiple people like this.
>>24682641I'm a jack of no trades and master of none
>>24683952>What's important is following your dao.>following>yourngmi
>>24684298Are you ok with that?Would you want it to be different?
>>24684847Yeah, but it's already too late for me…
That's a tranny isn't she?
>>24682951Call to authority fallacy. It's a proven fact the more intelligent you are, the more things you can excel at you fucking moron. Everyone in this thread is a brain dead fucking retard that thinks video game mechanics apply to the real world.
>>24683915>someone is (singular)>themselves (plural)you are retarded
>>24685605The world is just a huge RPG, you practice something to get more skill points in it, but if you assign points to every attribute you'll end up with a weak character that can't use any of his most powerful tools.
>>24685666I would have told you to kill yourself but you got the devil's trips.
>>24682641>Are you a type A or type B Dunning-Kreuger? Or perhaps a rare type C (pick this one if Based)
>>24685613Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition."prepared themselves for the trip; gave themselves plenty of time; were left to themselves."The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition, where the person is also the subject of the verb; also used for emphasis. -The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
