Paint drip people, a successor to T-shaped people
This goes along with the notion that the typical STEM person is interested in music&#x2F;art&#x2F;etc. about as much as the average person, but the typical Nobel Prize winner has a vastly higher interest in these alternative activities than the average person:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;the-correlation-between-arts-and-crafts-and-a" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;the-correlation-between-arts-and-cra...</a><p>I think the idea of being an &quot;expert in a field&quot; is becoming less valuable today than it used to be.  Because there are so many experts in so many fields, they all share the same knowledge, ideas, and preconceptions, and thus the only way to make further progress is to incorporate original ideas from other fields.  It goes along with the study that showed that interdisciplinary research has lower citations in the short-term, but many more citations in the long-term.