I've come across a couple of interesting sources of insight in this area.
Firstly, there was Tim Ferriss' interview with Walter Isaacson - the author of a number of biographies on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin. The most useful piece of learning I got from here was around specialisation in a domain - but understanding the basic principles of many others.
A similar point is made in this blog post about The Generalised Specialist which suggests that Da Vinci, Shakespeare and others were generalised specialists - deep knowledge in one domain, but about to use an awareness of other domains to bring deeper insight and reflection on their own.
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