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Range
- How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
A Financial Times Essential Reads
A powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.
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. And, worse, that if you 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, juggling many interests – in other words, by developing range.
Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why in most fields – especially those that are complex and unpredictable – generalists, not specialists are primed to excel. No matter what you do, where you are in life, whether you are a teacher, student, scientist, business analyst, parent, job hunter, retiree, you will see the world differently after you've read Range. You'll understand better how we solve problems, how we learn and how we succeed. You'll see why failing a test is the best way to learn and why frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers.
As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, Range shows how people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive and why spreading your knowledge across multiple domains is the key to your success, and how to achieve it.
Critic Reviews
"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, best-selling author of Outliers)
"It’s a joy to spend hours in the company of a writer as gifted as David Epstein." (Susan Cain, best-selling author of Quiet)
"Urgent and important...an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." (Daniel H. Pink)
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- Rahul Jagannathan
- 13-12-20
Very pertinent perspective for today's world
Every Generalist will feel good about reading this book. I thoroughly enjoyed the various arguments made across different contexts to urge people to take a systems view instead of a specific view.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-08-22
A life changing book
the ideas backed by research are eye opening and a must know. Every generalist as well as specialist should read it.
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- Sriram
- 28-07-21
This book is an eye opener
The author brings so many different perspectives and established stories with ease and crystal clear clarity
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- dharmavarun
- 06-06-21
Excellent
Loved it, a good book. Author put a perfect statement comparing highly specialized people in the industry to people with wider knowledge in several industries.
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- Kamal Aakarsh
- 22-10-20
Something that reframes your thinking
This is a great book. it really reframed my thinking about specialization and experimentation, in career. A must read for everyone.
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- Jim jason
- 29-08-20
Great book
I enjoyed listening to the book and found it to be very interesting with many detailed examples
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-07-21
Amazing read !!
Prospective altering book. Was skeptical to begin with but the correlations just blew me away.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-10-21
A good read
Felt a bit like survivor ship bias at times when he spoke about generalists.It would be great if author talked about What should specialists do in this world?
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- Harmeet Kaur
- 16-08-20
Headstarts are overarrated
One of the finest reads. Bursts a lot of myths about early specialization. Experiment as much as you can.
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- Mukesh
- 05-09-20
IT changed the way I used to think.
loved the narrative and story, it changed the way I used to think.
Last chapter encouraged me as well.
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