it is difficult to accept that the best learning road is slow, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later. It is so deeply c… - David Epstein

the foxiest forecasters — just bright people with wide-ranging interests and reading habits but no particular relevant background

In professional networks that acted as fertile soil for successful groups, individuals moved easily among teams, crossing organizational and disciplinary boundaries and finding new collaborators. Networks that spawned unsuccessful teams, conversely, were broken into small, isolated clusters in which the same people collaborated over and over. Efficient and comfortable, perhaps, but apparently not a creative engine.

As each man amassed more information for his own view, each became more dogmatic, and the inadequacies in their models of the world more stark.