> In sports there is the concept of the specificity of skills: if you want to improve your racquetball game, don’t practice squash! I believe the same holds tru

> In sports there is the concept of the specificity of skills: if you want to improve your racquetball game, don’t practice squash! I believe the same holds true for intellectual skills. Do not concur. The former is concrete; the latter abstract. The ability to connect dots of information in unexpected ways is indirectly connected with physical prowess, at best.