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The Specialist
Apart from having a better chance of
securing more work, being capable of
working across disciplines keeps you
entertained, as jumping from one dis-
cipline to another is seldom boring.
On the other hand, we've learned from
Adam Smith that specialized workers
are more productive than people who
try to do everything. A pioneering
political economist, Smith was the
founder of free-market economics. He
believed labor was paramount, and
that a division of labor would achieve a
great increase in production. One
example he used was the manufactur-
ing of pins. One work ...