[existencebox]

I agree with pretty much everything you've said, I think I'd just stress a different point than you responded to; namely that it's more about "not forcing it," "it" being whatever you chose to spend time on, echoing the "no template is right for everyone" sentiment of the grandparent posts.

That being said, I have some hand wavy opinions about the specialization/not specialization question being "at too high a level of abstraction", and that the focus should be on finding some way to impart "drive" (motivation?) into people, regardless of field and focus. I'd like to think on this more but I am currently late for work, so this'll have to do :(