📚 3 Books mentioned in "David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 35" of People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 35
Published on January 23, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Outliers
Buy Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell on Amazon
The Sports Gene was popularized by Gladwell in his book Outliers.
The podcast host discusses Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Outliers' and explains how it relates to 'The Sports Gene' by David Epstein.
Range
Buy Range by David Epstein on Amazon
His second book, Range, discusses the benefits of being a generalist in a world overrun with specialists.
Podcast host Steve Levitt introduces David Epstein by mentioning his second book, 'Range,' which explores the advantages of being a generalist in an increasingly specialized world.
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.
During the conversation, podcast host Steve Levitt reflects on an idea that struck him after reading David Epstein's book, 'Range', indicating that it offered new insights he hadn't previously considered.
To give an example of that short-term long-term trade-off, a study came out too recently for me to get it into my book.
Podcast guest David Epstein discusses a study that was published too recently to be included in his book 'Range', which focuses on the balance between short-term and long-term trade-offs.
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.
In the podcast, the host shares his insights from David Epstein's book, 'Range', discussing how various forces influence people to specialize in their fields.
The Tipping Point
Buy The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell on Amazon
This was back in 2006, when Malcolm argued in The Tipping Point that innovative policing was the reason crime went down in the 1990s.
During the podcast, the host refers to Malcolm Gladwell's influential book, 'The Tipping Point', discussing how it argues that innovative policing contributed to the decline in crime rates during the 1990s.