This must change, he argues, if students are to capitalize on their unprecedented capacity for abstract thought. They must be taught to think before … - David Epstein

Our work preferences and our life preferences do not stay the same, because we do not stay the same.

I propose instead that you don’t commit to anything in the future, but just look at the options available now, and choose those that will give you the most promising range of options afterward.

breadth of training predicts breadth of transfer. That is, the more contexts in which something is learned, the more the learner creates abstract models, and the less they rely on any particular example. Learners become better at applying their knowledge to a situation they’ve never seen before, which is the essence of creativity.