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Never Stop Learning
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Never Stop Learning

by Bradley R. Staats
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 8m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Chapter 8

 

SPECIALIZATION AND VARIETY

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

—Lev S. Vygotsky1

In 2003 the noted filmmaker Errol Morris released the documentary The Fog of War, a series of interviews with Robert McNamara, the architect of US involvement in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. The movie intersperses McNamara’s reflections on the hard lessons he learned with historical footage, providing a candid look at a man trying to learn from the many difficult situations he faced. My friend Katy ...

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ISBN: 9781633692862