Coronavirus: Range Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

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🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Now more than ever, it seems the more you know, the better off you’ll be, especially in your career. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. Our guest this weekend, David Epstein, uses his latest book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, to examine the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields, especially those that are complex and unpredictable, generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Coronavirus Market Update. It is Saturday, August 22nd, and Mark and I are on vacation.
0:11.0	So we lifted some of the great interviews that we've conducted
0:15.4	that maybe you forgot about and that might be particularly useful in this
0:19.2	period of time. Today we are rebroadcasting our interview with David Epstein. He is an author and his book
0:26.5	Range Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World seem to be particularly important right now as we are asked to do so many
0:36.2	different things for our bosses and do it from home. So I hope you enjoy this. This is
0:41.2	our interview with David Epstein as somebody who is a
0:45.1	generalist of course I was immediately drawn to anything that reaffirms my
0:49.6	thesis on life which is know a little bit about a lot of stuff.
0:53.7	So David, you previously wrote a book called The Sports Gene.
0:58.5	When you were lecturing about that
1:03.3	something else came up so talk about the reason you wrote this book and how it came out of the sports studies right so in some ways I'm glad this sort of affirmed your thinking because this project sort of began with something that overturned some of my thinking.
1:15.0	I was in the sports world where the so-called 10,000-hour rule, this idea that early specialization
1:20.0	and in highly technical practice and whatever you're going to do is the route expertise.
1:25.0	And after writing a little bit about talent in sports, I got invited to debate the writer
1:29.6	Malcolm Gladwell at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which is founded by the general manager of the Houston
1:34.8	Rockets.
1:36.3	And it was set up as 10,000 hours versus the sports gene, you know, even though we have some
1:40.4	middle ground, this sort of talent versus practice thing.
1:43.2	Malcolm's very clever and I didn't want to get embarrassed and we'd never met before so
1:47.0	I kind of tried to anticipate what he was going to argue and I figured he would have to
1:51.2	argue that athletes should develop with as early as possible,
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