Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2019-05-28
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & David Epstein: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #133
David Epstein – Wide or Deep? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.133]
My guest this week is David Epstein. David is a writer and researcher extraordinaire and the author of two great books.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Range by David J. Epstein, and discussed The Sports Gene by David Epstein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Sports Gene
Discussed“Since the antecedents for your latest book, Range, really are buried in your first book, The Sports Gene, I thought it'd be fun to start there”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Outliers
“And I really want to go back and read my book proposal because the books that I likened my book to in the proposal were like outliers and the talent code and talent is overrated.”
Passing Talent Is Overrated
“And I really want to go back and read my book proposal because the books that I likened my book to in the proposal were like outliers and the talent code and talent is overrated.”
Passing The talent code
“And I really want to go back and read my book proposal because the books that I likened my book to in the proposal were like outliers and the talent code and talent is overrated.”
“So I very consciously stayed away from making the arguments for a liberal arts education of Freed Zakaria has a book that does that.”
Plugged Range
“And I think – and again, I'm seeing this through my own range lens, of course, right now because, I mean, the book's about to come out and it's on my mind a lot.”
Passing Finite and Infinite Games
“And it makes me think of the James Karsh, you know, finite versus infinite games. And it seems like you kind of started with the finite games and performance in those”