I love being a generalist
Especially a creative one
A generalist is a dabbler, an explorer, a learner —
someone with broad knowledge across many topics and expertise in a few.
Generalists are likely to have a meandering career path. Although the
life story of a generalist can look a bit disjointed, if you were to
draw a Venn diagram of their experiences, you’ll find a great amount of
overlap as one opportunity leads to another, like throwing a stone into
a pond and watching the ripples spread out concentrically.
All knowledge builds on itself, and the generalist takes
their suitcase packed full of wide-ranging experience with them wherever
they go, offering companies a
tremendous amount of value.
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