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You can make dramatic advance in areas other than your specialty by NOT by trying to be an expert in all of them... but by cherry picking them for what you need to complete a larger composit picture.
This works incredibly well in all areas.. health, medicine, engineering, and many other issues for instance in my case. By these means I have surpassed the bulk of current medical science on a sliver of insight that crosses thier own borders..that sliver of insight as made me robust at age 64 where i had been in a fast decline.. and it has exposed much error and dead end research in some of thier research... going across disciplines and sub sections of specialty research, forces an integral collation to happen...bogus data will not collate.
Actuallity collates... that screening device is quite valuable.
Cherry picking is enabled by understanding the basic underying foundations on which these disciplines are founded.. such as a little math, science and physics at the first year college level... even at the high school level there is enough in these disciplines to be very useful in the collaborative effort. Most dont know that General Dynamics F-16 fighter jet was designed by one of the early principles , a guy who never graduated high school.
How did he do it? he was not a mathematician or aeronautical engineer..but he designed the F-16 none the less... this is done as discussed in this piece.
One finds that the basics intersect.. . if you take the time to delve deeply into the basics....by creating these intersections you can espose the errors in each larger discipline...and actually gain an advance... at first its mostly error though... bogus ideas produce bad results......but with time and practice the skill develops so that you begin arriving at advances in these areas that work and are demonstrable.
It doesnt take much advance at all in some cases to give you the keys you need to be flat tracking at age 64.
And of course...flat tracking is relevant...across a broad spectrum even beyond this ng.
Life lived fully intersects across broad spectrums.
Phil Scott