The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a … - David Epstein

Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.

Compared to the Tiger Mother’s tome, a parenting manual oriented toward creative achievement would have to open with a much shorter list of rules. In offering advice to parents, psychologist Adam Grant noted that creativity may be difficult to nurture, but it is easy to thwart. He pointed to a study that found an average of six household rules for typical children, compared to one in households with extremely creative children. The parents with creative children made their opinions known after their kids did something they didn’t like, they just did not proscribe it beforehand. Their households were low on prior restraint.

We think more resources lead to better ideas.

The research shows the opposite.

When options are limited, your brain stops coasting and starts searching.

If you want a better solution, give yourself less to work with.