Do you believe in "Jack of All Trades, Master of None"??
If you ask me, I don't believe this!
It is borrrrrrrrrringgggggggg.
I started reading the other side of the story on the Internet.
What if we can be "Jack of all Trades & Master of Many"?
then I came across this Tim Ferriss article & here are the Top 5 Reasons he says you can be the "Jack of all trades, master of many"
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It’s more fun, in the most serious existential sense.
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Diversity of intellectual playgrounds breeds confidence instead of fear of the unknown
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Boredom is Failure.
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In a world of dogmatic specialists, it’s the generalist who ends up running the show.
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“Jack of all trades, master of none” is an artificial pairing.
What struck me is Point no 4. I want to know your thoughts on this.
Do you believe in "Jack of all trades, Master of None"??
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I don't get the point you are making, it all sounds clickbaity.
In fact, there is nothing to click on :P
I am just asking people's view
"Jack of all trades, master of none...
but better than a master of one."
When we think experts, we think people who really mastered one skill. It's not the case. But they sell themselves as such.
Let's say you're a company. You have a problem in one of your database full of important data. Who will you hire? The fullstack web developer, or the specialist in databases? If it's really important and there is a lot of money on the table, you'll go for the specialist. And you'll pay him well.
Here's what I believe though (baked by many consulting books I read - I wanted to go into consulting at one point): a good specialist often don't use its specialty. Even if the database of the company has a problem, he will speak with people to understand why there is a problem at the first place. Then, he will teach the company to solve the problem by themselves, maybe by introducing a piece of software which has nothing to do with databases, depending on the root problem.
That's what I call a specialist. Somebody who sell himself as such, but who has way more skills than that. He's / she's often T-shaped, which means that he's / she's strong in one set of skill, and good / very good in many others.