specialization

In his book 'Range', David Epstein outlines a problem he discovered while studying the world’s top performers: “The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.” While specialization is necessary, I would contend that we put too much emphasis on specializing and too little on gaining new and differing perspectives. Are we doing ourselves a disservice by becoming too specialized?