Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact

your own life and those around you.

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and

behave.

We want you to become a better thinker.

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors,

thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, body language,

persuasion, and more.

So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with

us.

Today on the show, David Epstein, author of Range, why generalist triumph in a specialized

world.

For years, we've been led to believe that picking a specific field of study as early as

possible and sticking with it was the key to becoming a high performer in our field.

But what if the key to becoming great in a specific field was not to start narrowing

our practices down as early as possible, but instead to study a wide breadth of seemingly

unrelated fields entirely?

He joins us to uncover some new research that shows that not only do head starts in life

often fade away, but many times they can actually be detrimental to deep learning.

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