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Why is it better to experiment with different skills and hobbies rather than mastering one specialty? What is the importance of transferable skills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traditional way of thinking says that it’s best to choose one specialty and focus your efforts<\/a> on mastering it. However, according to David Epstein, the author of Range<\/em>, it’s actually better to have a broad range of transferrable skills than one specialist skill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is why broad experience is better than specializing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: This article is part of\u00a0Shortform’s guide to career development<\/a>. If you like what you read here, there\u2019s plenty more to check out in the guide!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why It’s Better to Have a Broad Range of Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is the importance of transferable skills? In his book Range, <\/em>Epstein establishes the principle that broad learning teaches transferable skills<\/strong>. Basic training in a wide range of activities teaches a unique kind of skillset\u2014one founded on instincts and principles that apply across disciplines rather than habits that apply in only one context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A period of broad experience exploration provides robust expertise that is transferable to unfamiliar situations. In some cases, it even leads to greater skill than someone who narrowly specialized. To prove this, Epstein dives into the world of professional musicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the greatest groups of musicians in history was the figlie del coro<\/em>, a classical ensemble in 17th-century Venice comprised entirely of orphaned girls. The figlie <\/em>performed for royalty, had pieces composed specifically for them by greats such as Vivaldi and Haydn, and were widely regarded as the finest musicians in the world. The figlie<\/em>\u2019s success wasn\u2019t due to extreme amounts of deliberate practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epstein recounts that the girls only had formal lessons three days a week, although they were allowed to practice in their spare time\u2014which wasn\u2019t much. The orphanage eventually devoted more time to music practice after the figlie<\/em> became famous, but at first, the orphans were only allowed to practice for an hour a day<\/strong>, in between schoolwork and chores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Epstein, what made the <\/strong>figlie<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s training uniquely successful was the number of different instruments they were required to learn. <\/strong>The girls were encouraged to learn every instrument the orphanage owned, and many achieved virtuoso-level skill on multiple instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This same phenomenon has been studied among modern-day musicians. A study conducted at a high-level music boarding school found that the highest-performing students didn\u2019t practice more than others, took fewer formal lessons, didn\u2019t start playing at a younger age, and didn\u2019t even come from musical families. Instead, what set them apart was the number of instruments they knew how to play. <\/strong>The most <\/strong>exceptional students typically spread their practice time across three instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Limits of Transferable Learning<\/strong>

While there is evidence in favor of broad learning across musical instruments, it\u2019s important to note that there are limits to how \u201cbroad\u201d transferable learning can be. Back in 1923, psychologists distinguished between \u201cnear transfer\u201d and \u201cfar transfer\u201d of learning, based on the principle that experience can transfer proportionally to the number of similar elements shared by two activities<\/a>. For example, you can use your knowledge of how to drive a car to learn how to drive a bus\u2014near transfer. Similarly, Epstein asserts that near transfer allowed the figlie<\/em> to transfer their musical skills across surprisingly dissimilar instruments, for instance, from singing<\/a> to the violin. The two skills have enough in common for near transfer to function. Far Transfer, on the other hand, would be like transferring your chess experience to better learn mathematics, and it\u2019s been largely debunked.

In the 19th century, Latin was a core component of an American schoolchild\u2019s education because it was assumed that learning Latin would make children \u201csmarter\u201d overall. Many people still hold the belief that learning something like chess or piano will somehow enrich your overall cognitive faculties, and some studies have confirmed this assumption. However, in 2016, a couple of researchers conducted a meta-analysis of these studies and found that many of them fell prey to a common fallacy\u2014they mistook correlation for causation. Successful students enjoy playing music or chess because they\u2019re stimulating activities; it doesn’t necessarily make them smarter. When these studies were adjusted under more narrow conditions, the correlation all but disappeared. Still, as we\u2019ll see in the rest of this guide, there are plenty of reasons to practice generalism, even if most of your specific skills don\u2019t transfer from one discipline to another.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Epstein suggests that broad learners create \u201cabstract models\u201d based on the commonalities across activities, internalizing skills that apply in multiple contexts. Narrow specialists, on the other hand, merely learn to repeat what they\u2019ve already seen done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, children learn to talk by hearing the rules of grammar implicitly applied in a broad variety of contexts. They don\u2019t learn by repeatedly practicing selected sentences over and over, like formal music students do in deliberate practice. In the same way, musicians that learn multiple instruments discover a greater understanding of music that applies in all contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Knowing Two Languages Help You Learn a Third?<\/strong>

Recent science shows that, just as it\u2019s easier to learn a third musical instrument after you\u2019ve played two, it\u2019s easier to learn a third language if you\u2019re already bilingual. A study from Israel compared two groups of sixth-graders\u2014one group of immigrants from the former Soviet Union that spoke both fluent Russian and Hebrew, and one group of natives who only spoke Hebrew. Interestingly, the kids who spoke Russian were not only better at learning English, they were more proficient in Hebrew than the native speakers who only spoke Hebrew<\/a>. Additionally, if you learned your second language later in life, you gain the additional advantage of discovering which language-learning strategies best work for you<\/a>, whether that be a focus on reading and writing, conversing with native speakers, or even watching foreign movies.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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