![]() ![]() Epstein gives examples of world-class athletes who engaged in several sports initially and world-class musicians who played several instruments before they focused on one. Therefore, it is essential to be engaged with the topic, and if one hasn’t decided on a specific area, it is beneficial to survey the field to discover what one wants to do. However, David Epstein challenges this notion and argues that breadth of practice is just as important as depth.Įpstein’s first argument is that 10,000 hours of practice is a long time, and it requires a lot of dedicated work. This has led many to believe that starting early and focusing on one area is the best way to achieve expertise. I will start by talking about how profound the book is: The widely accepted 10,000-hour rule (popularized by Malcolm Gladwell) suggests that to become an expert in any field, one needs to put in a lot of practice and repetition. However, when I reached around the 120th page, punctuated by reading For The Good of the Nation by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the drama of the presidential elections, I was no longer sure. ![]() ![]() The book was written in 2019.Īfter reading the first 80 pages of the book, I told a friend that this is one of the most profound books I have read in a long time. This morning, I finished reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, an American journalist who previously worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica and Sports Illustrated. ![]()
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