Community requires plenty of specialists as the #1 syndrome hits the whole world. Everyone is told to be a specialist in a specific area. Then let me ask something like this: generalist doesn’t work at all? Let’s think about it.
I identify myself that I am a kind of generalist. My concerning area? Lots. I try to learn from various sources in sections like business, world news, technologies, politics, entertainment, whatsoever. And have it destroyed me? Never.
When I was in high school, I built a simple economical hypothesis. If the society needs specialist, then many people will try to be the one. In some day, the supply of specialist would tailgate the demand and the competition would be a rat race. And my conclusion was, being Generalist to connect those special people would be a nice choice.
It seems weird today but that is the doctrine which has led me to breeze through the flow. I feel that it was a good shot. In terms of business, far-reaching sight is a vantage point and accessibility to the information would be a great help. Generalist takes those kinds of things instead of expertise.
You know what? Most specialists may say that “I am afraid that it is not my area” when they face some unfamiliar matter. But generalists may say differently. That is the competitive factor of the generalist and that’s why the generalist works today.
