Breadth or Depth of Knowledge?

[Reginald]

Which is more useful? That’s really tough to say... there really are a number of contexts where such an intense specialization would be more beneficial, and likewise for a broad base of knowledge. Thinking offhand here, an expansive breadth of knowledge would likely play better in informal settings, whereas depth would be better suited for those that are more formal or scholarly (though it’s by no means so hastily clear-cut).

In the end, I voted for depth, but only because it’s been a wish of mine to really cultivate some semblance of an expertise on something that interests me (even if expertise is kind of an arbitrary threshold anyway). The problem – at least for me – is sifting through it all and finding out what exactly those most-beloved one or two disciplines are.