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Further evidence for balance

I've been trying to find quotes that explain why one shouldn't spend one's entire life fixated on one tiny little topic.

Vernor Vinge. "A Deepness in the Sky" p 287.

"But you know about really creative people, the artists who end up in your history books? As often as not, they're some poor dweeb who doesn't have a life. He or she is just totally fixated on learning everything about some single topic. A sane person couldn't justify losing friends and family to concentrate so hard. Of course, the payoff is that the dweeb may find things or make things that are totally unexpected. See, in that way a little of Focus has always been part of the human race. We Emergents have simply institutionalized this sacrifice so the whole community can benefit in a concentrated, organized way."