this seems like kind of a cope by upper-range midwits (i.e. very smart people who are not geniuses). it posits this view that the knowledge that exists beyond your own ken is a kind of singularity of complexity, way too much for one single person to ever integrate, so you shouldn't feel so bad about what you don't know, the insights you could never have come up with, or skills you don't have. i'm one of those upper-level midwits myself, don't get me wrong, but there are supergeniuses who just know every damn thing you can possibly ask them. and it's very important to not get too dismissive, or mistake someone who actually does know everything for an arrogant dunning krueger, because you've dismissed out of hand that anyone could be that capable. because those people are the isaac newtons and davincis of the world. they do exist, and they can change the world. the problem is nowadays we've set everything up to allow us upper-level midwits to contribute-- in tiny little fields for which we are expected to know everything within, and nothing without. "stay in your lane," that's the mentality in academia and research right now. and make no mistake it *works* for steady, slow progress. but it cannot make the kind of intuitive leaps that really characterize human progress-- it can't relate phenomenon in one discipline or area of study to another. this is why we have, for example, a food industry that completely ignores health, and a health industry that completely ignores food.
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