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Hello, thanks for joining us here for episode 453.

We got David Epstein Epstein he's talking about

range and why generalists often triumphs.

So there in one how focusing on short-term improvement can undermine long-term

development two pro-tips for breaking through your

learning plateaus, and three, the benefits of becoming a jack of all trades.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced.

It's over at awesome at your job.com slash F four five three.

Now here's David Story. David Epstein is the author of the book Range,

why general this triumph in a specialized world and the top 10 New York Times bestseller, the

sports gene. He was previously a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica and

before that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. His writing has been honored widely and he's got his master's degrees

and environmental science and journalism and is reasonably sure that he's the only person to have co-authored a paper in the Journal of

Arctic and Arctic and Alpine Research,

while also being a writer at Sports Illustrated.

So thanks to David for spending some time with us,

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Check him out.

Here is David. David, thanks so much for joining us here on how to be awesome at your job podcast.

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