Cross-disciplinary approaches are linked with higher productivity and creativity. At one point in European academic history, this was considered the norm. Fields and concepts such as the “renaissance man” and philology were fairly common up until the mid-1900s when the cultural trend lead us more towards specialization. Scholars such as Richard Feynman used cross-disciplinary approaches to his advantage1.
This also applies to audiences. Changing the audience can help us find fertile new grounds for our ideas. I often feel like I wouldn’t have anything to contribute to the audience of the topic I’m studying. This, reasonably, assumes that they’ve already read the book or its source material. Change the audience. If it’s a cognitive science book, write about it for an audience of teachers or my students. Find places in the world where that knowledge should go.
This is not supported in any literature I’ve read so far, but I suspect cross-disciplinary approaches come more easily to neurodivergent individuals.