Be a Humanist
A student of the humanities learns to recognize general principles governing disparate fields of study. He searches for the telos, the end or purpose, of anything he studies, rather than getting caught up in the minutiae.
I had a friend who wrote a paper on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (physics), Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem (formal logic / mathematics), and Russian literature (lit). This paper is the quintessential example of the liberal arts.
Abstract, get to the idea driving forces you witness. If you adopt this view, much of the knowledge you thought was domain specific will suddenly seem applicable in new domains. You can apply things you learned playing tennis to the way you work in the office, you can apply principles of SEO to make it easier to find emails you send to friends, you can apply nearly any X to any Y.
I find myself in a philosophical mood today…
