You don’t want a child prodigy

This pattern extends beyond music and sports. My favorite example of a generalist inventor is Gunpei Yokoi, who designed the Game Boy. His philosophy, “lateral thinking with withered technology,” was predicated on dabbling in many different types of older, well-understood (or “withered”) technology, and combining them in new ways, hence the Game Boy’s thoroughly dated tech specs.

Source: www.nytimes.com