Range

“and I'm reminded of David Epstein's book range you know the idea that that having a Confluence of of interest and influences can actually make you you know uniquely suited to your job”

“And the person who comes to mind is, is David Epstein, who wrote this wonderful book, Range, that I talk about constantly on the podcast, and his whole thesis is that when you canvas exceptional performers across all facets of expertise...”

“and to try lots of things and develop expertise in a variety of areas allah david epstein and his book range which if you if you have not read that book you should certainly read it”

“It's reminiscent a little bit of David Epstein's book, "Range".”

“He's the author of some great books, "Range," "The Sports Gene," and he has this newsletter called Range Widely.”

“I would suggest that you might enjoy reading David Epstein's book "Range." David who came up earlier on the podcast.”

“Did you read David Epstein's book "Range"? No.”

“You should read David Epstein's book Range though, 'cause it's kind of all about that.”

“I think a work that has been instrumental in helping me rethink that, and I think every young person should read is David Epstein's "Range" because we have this idea that a young person who toggles between many different things...”

“It's like David Epstein's book "Range," right?”

“There's a book called "Range" by a guy called David Epstein. I read it. Yeah, he he's been on the podcast too.”

“Have you read David Epstein's book "Range"?”

“I just put up a podcast yesterday with David Epstein I wrote this book range and he deconstructs the career paths of all these amazing people to to kind of upend the theory the 10,000 hour rule”

“and congrats on this book I mean this is quite an accomplishment and it's no surprise that it's resonating with so many people right now”

“if you look at the work that goes into you putting a book like this together as I've heard you say like you read you know thousands of these studies and many of which seem irrelevant or don't you know directly inform what ends up on the page”

“I mean in the book you're like no I was literally the slowest like the coaches felt sorry for you”

“like one of the quotes I loved in the book that stuck with me because I don't know what I'm going to do next right but I'm not as like agitated about that as I used to be was from this woman Herminia Ibarra who studies how people make successful career changes”

“is the book available everywhere it's almost impossible to miss it I was in the airport yesterday and there was like a whole rack like outward facing”

“David Epstein do you know who that is he wrote this book called range that's really good he's a sports journalist is really great”

“and your first book was good and and and successful but then range was a a smash like you can now do whatever you want.”

“And I've often said that I think range is a parenting book in disguise. Yeah. I love that.”

“I've said that just as The Road is a parenting book in disguise, I think David Epstein's Range is a parenting book in disguise.”

“and there's actually a great book I have in the bookstore I'll give it to you have you read range by David Epstein”

“i was just thinking about when i think of you one of my favorite books range have you read range i have not oh so it's the subtitle is how generous triumph in a specialized world”

“There's another book called uh range by david epstein where he talks about this basically in those exact terms he says testing spacing and interleaving are like the three sort of primary things for learning any skill whether whether it's like knowledge for a university subject or whether it's like tennis or golf or anything like that”

“there's another book called uh range by david epstein where he talks about this basically in those exact terms he says testing spacing and interleaving are like the three sort of primary things for learning any skill whether whether it's like knowledge for a university subject or whether it's like tennis or golf or anything like that”

“so there's a really lovely book that was written by a friend of mine david epstein um and uh it was uh it's called range”

“well there's a really lovely book that was written by a friend of mine david epstein um and uh it was uh it's called range”

“like I love this phras my my favorite my absolute favorite phrase in range was is a paraphrase from this woman named herminia Ibara”

“that's one of the big things I took away from the book range but also just much of your work is it's easy to get complacent”

“And the book that I've been fascinated with the past five years, four or five years is Epstein's Range.”

“i'm reading this book on the brain sort of like um that guy david epstein wrote he wrote the sports gene where he found the fastest people in the world tiny part of africa the people that run the farthest which is the highlands of kenya really fascinating book he's a sports illustrated writer and then he there's a new”

“and then the final book for me is called range and it's by David Epstein”

“yeah david's work on range um in where he talks about range is brilliant”

“Yeah. And if you think about um like one of my favorite books is Range by David Epstein, which which talks about the broad range of skills that people who then really success at really succeed in academia or sports have, right?”

“one of my favorite books in the last few years has been a book by David Epstein called range it's in Praise of a generalist”

“I had David Epstein on the show a couple years back he's written some great books like range and the sports Gene”

“His second book, Range, discusses the benefits of being a generalist in a world overrun with specialists.”

“I want to talk first about your more recent book entitled range why generalists Triumph in a specialized world”

“your books are full of stories and there are a few stories in range that I just loved”

“so one explanation for why we don't see so much genius is actually the arguments you make in range”

“I hadn't really thought about this; even when I read your book, it's not like necessarily we've made a mistake as a society.”

“what I took from your book was that there are a lot of forces parental and societal that push people towards being quite specialized in what they do”

“What I took from your book was that there are a lot of forces, parental and societal, that push people towards being quite specialized in what they do.”

“there was one in Inventor in range named Jerry Seth who became extremely successful and what I thought was really interesting was she said when she started her her master's program”

“and there's this one of the sort of a summary one of the the researchers in range I interviewed sort of summarized a body of work for me about problem-solving in a way that I thought was very eloquent”

“well the best example my favorite example in the book is van Gogh I mean it just goes on and on and on with all the things that this guy was trying to do before he kind of found his thing”

“and in her 30s a woman in her community came and asked her like will you volunteer to lead a Girl Scout troop because the other leader left”

“where Steve levit was interviewing David Epstein the author of The Great Book range”

“you're going to talk about range now right correct”

“That was one of the the one that we did on Range was one of the highest played that I'd ever It was the first time that we ever hit the charts on Apple in 2019.”

“David Epstein guys that wrote range he said that he'd done an analysis of when the out of the average age of this years of industry changing businesses”

“it's how Garth I learned from David Epstein in his book range and in our interview”

“and you know there are examples in my conversation with David Epstein is a book range about this phenomenon and it's just it's an incredibly important phenomenon”

“Cause you know, I know you talk about David Epstein's book range.”

“Like to use David Epstein's book title, right? It's range.”

“and then he there's a new book coming out called range and it's about how when you teach a kid or when you when you learn a lot of different disciplines so if you're some of the best violinists some of the best athletes whatever they didn't specialize”

“and I mean you had the like and that's why you know in David Epstein's book about range like that's why you got to have all these different interests because they converge together around something and oftentimes that's where new professions are created”

“talking to epstein about absolutely and like range is sort of like like chess is not that interesting”

“This was work that Keith Holyoak had done at UCLA and it relates to a lot of the concepts in the back of Range the book by David Epstein”

“And where a hyper specialist and and David Epstein's book range is all about this specialist versus broad thing.”

“One of my favorite books in the last few years has been a book by David Epstein called range”

“you know I had a conversation with David Epstein the former writer for Sports Illustrated... you're going to talk about range now... and I read range and I talked to David and I think actually he raises good points”

“so interesting point here David Epstein guys that wrote range he said that he'd done an analysis of when the out of the average age of this years of industry changing businesses”