Top 5 Reasons To Be A Jack-Of-All-Trades

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	Top 5 Reasons To Be A Jack-Of-All-Trades

weirdguy

9-12-2008 12:25 PM

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business, learning, talent, da vinci, management, creativity

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Tim Ferriss has something here -- what do you think?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e09a7102-eb03-472a-8c72-4bb4d95f1b0e/6EB42DE1-7DED-45D0-A1F0-4FB81F4F43C5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/" href="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/" style="font-size: 11px;">weirdblog.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/"><P><STRONG>Are the days of Da Vinci dead?  Is it possible to, at once, be a world-class painter, engineer, scientist, and more?
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The devout specialist is fond of labeling the impetuous learner–Da Vinci and Ben Franklin being just two forgotten examples–”jack of all trades, master of none.” The chorus unites: In the modern world, it is he who specializes who survives and thrives. There is no place for Renaissance men or women. Starry-eyed amateurs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/"><P><STRONG>Is it true? </STRONG> I don’t think so. Here are the top five reasons why being a “jack of all trades,” what I prefer to call a “generalist,” is making a comeback:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/"><STRONG>5) “Jack of all trades, master of none” is an artificial pairing. </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weirdblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/top-5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/"><STRONG>4) In a world of dogmatic specialists, it’s the generalist who ends up running the show.
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