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Range By David Epstein

Range by David Epstein


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The fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book on how to be successful in the twenty-first century. Through fascinating stories and vividly explained research, David Epstein demonstrates how, as the world has become increasingly complex, developing range can help us excel.

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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

'A gold mine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic Habits

The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize. With a new foreword from the author, David Epstein.

Instant Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
A Financial Times Essential Read


From the 10,000 hours' rule to the power of tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start.

This is completely wrong.

In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly and juggling interests this is the power of developing range.

Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why, in most fields. generalists, not specialists are primed to excel.

In the years since its initial release, Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths and changed lives. Read it to view the world differently.

'I loved Range' Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point

'Fascinating . . . if you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' Bill Gates

Range Reviews

I think his ideas even help explain some of Microsofts success, because we hired people who had real breadth within their field and across domains. If youre a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you -- Bill Gates
A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page -- James Clear, New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits
A captivating read that will leave you questioning the next steps in your career and the way you raise your children -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Think Again
David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range -- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers
An urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance -- Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human
Its a joy to spend hours in the company of a writer as gifted as David Epstein. And the joy is all the greater when that writer shares so much crucial and revelatory information about performance, success, and education -- Susan Cain, author of Quiet
Extraordinary * Guardian *
The storytelling is so dramatic, the wielding of data so deft and the lessons so strikingly framed [its] a pleasure to read . . . Range offers such a wealth of thought-provoking material * New York Times Books Review *
Fabulous . . . If you are interested in champions' journeys, this is for you -- Judy Murray on Twitter
Masterful. Perfect holiday reading -- Dr Adam Rutherford, scientist, writer and broadcaster
Anyone contemplating a change of career late in life will find Range immensely reassuring. If you calculate that you don't have 10,000 hours left in which you can reasonably practice, you can use your range to connect ideas and use your varied experience -- Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
Brilliant, timely, and utterly impossible to put down. If you care about improving skill, innovation, and performance, you need to read this book -- Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code
Range elevates Epstein to one of the very best science writers at work today. The scope of the bookand the implicationsare breathtaking -- Sebastian Junger, filmmaker and author of The Perfect Storm
One of the most thought-provoking and enlightening books Ive read -- Maria Konnikova, poker player and author of The Confidence Game
I want to give Range to . . . everyone who wants humans to thrive in an age of robots. Range is full of surprises and hope, a 21st century survival guide -- Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
Range is a convincing, engaging survey of research and anecdotes that confirm a thoughtful, collaborative world is also a better and more innovative one -- NPR.org
As David Epstein shows us, cultivating range prepares us for the wickedly unanticipated . . . a well-supported and smoothly written case on behalf of breadth and late starts * Wall Street Journal *
A clear and unfussy writer . . . this book is likely to resonate strongly with most teachers -- tes.com

About David Epstein

David Epstein is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers The Sports Gene and Range. He holds master's degrees in environmental science and journalism and has worked as an as an investigative reporter for ProPublica and as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He lives in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction - i: Roger vs. Tiger Chapter - 1: The Cult of the Head Start Chapter - 2: How the Wicked World Was Made Chapter - 3: When Less of the Same Is More Chapter - 4: Learning, Fast and Slow Chapter - 5: Thinking Outside Experience Chapter - 6: Finding Your Match Chapter - 7: Flirting with Your Possible Selves Chapter - 8: The Outsider Advantage Chapter - 9: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology Chapter - 10: Fooled by Experience Chapter - 11: Learning to Drop Your Familiar Tools Chapter - 12: Deliberate Amateurs Section - ii: Conclusion: Expanding Your Range Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Section - iv: Notes Index - v: Index

Additional information

NGR9781035053049
9781035053049
1035053047
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2024-08-22
368
N/A
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