Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Part Two
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Now more than ever, it seems the more you know, the better off you’ll be, especially in your career.
Our repeat 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.
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| 1:04.3 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. |
| 1:05.8 | It's Sunday, August 14th. |
| 1:07.7 | And today we are re-airing an interview that we conducted with David Epstein. |
| 1:12.8 | He is the author of Range, why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World. |
| 1:17.9 | Yesterday we talked about how David came upon this topic. |
| 1:21.8 | That's through an interesting connection. |
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