The most successful people are often specialists, but that's because they took a high-risk bet and won. To maximize your average success (rather than chance of

The most successful people are often specialists, but that's because they took a high-risk bet and won. To maximize your average success (rather than chance of runaway success), it seems more efficient to be a generalist, due to diminishing returns from any single skill. Just take care to be actually good at many things, not average at many things.