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The Michael Caz Podcast

Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World ft. David Epstein

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

David Epstein is an investigative reporter at ProPublica, and the author of two New York Times Bet-Sellers, “The Sports Gene” and “Range”. He is also joining the podcast this week to dispel some of the most common myths about genetics and athletic ability as well as why being a generalist might actually give you an advantage in today’s specialized world.

In this episode David covers such topics including the advantage to switching your vocation, why short term success can lead to long term failure, and how to learn more effectively.

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Topics:

04:55 - Cardiac death in athletes

10:55 - Athletic background

22:25 - Grit

32:25 - Self-regulatory learning

41:25 - Kind vs. Wicked learning environments

45:55 - Doing vs. Learning

Links:

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Books:

The Sports Gene: Inside The Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day.

0:04.0

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

0:07.0

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

0:11.0

Relentless pursuit of progress.

0:14.0

There's a difference between the best and the rest.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast.

0:22.0

Champions are built in the morning first.

0:24.2

Where we interview scientists, world champions,

0:26.6

doctors and experts,

0:28.0

in just about every area of health and fitness.

0:30.4

What do you care enough about?

0:32.1

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else?

0:39.0

And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu. Welcome back. This is Michael Kaju and you're listening to the Brut Strength

1:06.3

Podcast. Today I've got David Epstein on the show. David has two New York Times

1:12.3

best-selling books called The Sports Gene and another called Range.

1:16.5

And in general, he is dispelling some huge myths in the world and in society.

1:23.4

One about the fact that you don't have to have great genetics

1:28.7

to be a great athlete and the other about how

1:32.1

it can actually be a benefit and an advantage to switch sports or switch careers or switch anything many, many times throughout your life

1:43.2

rather than it being a detriment.

1:45.2

For so long, we've been told that we need to specialize,

1:48.8

we need to pick one thing and become the expert on that to be successful to be fulfilled and he really dispels that in his book range.

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