narrow-mindedness is a disease

Because it's impossible for anyone to know everything, specialization was created. What I originally understood about specialization was that it meant mastery. But based on my experience, it seems that those who specialize put horse blinders on themselves as if only their field of view is the valid and acceptable reality. In this day and age, we cannot be content with our own little microcosms.

The epidemiologist prefers 100, while the anthropologist is content with 1.
Novelists is to flowery words, while Strunk & White is to omit needless words!
Shakespeare is to iambic pentameter, Neruda is to unstructured poetry.
Beautiful to a mother is ugly to another.

Let us maintain a focused view without completely ignoring our peripheral vision. After all, we are all trying to look at something that is beyond ourselves. Hopefully, our own little facets will contribute to a big compound eye that will provide us with a clear picture...that image that will answer all our questions.