Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - Softcover

Epstein, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509843523 ISBN 13: 9781509843527

Verlag: Macmillan, 2020

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'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - JAMES CLEAR, 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.

The instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

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 many 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. Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths and changed lives. Read it to view the world differently.

'I loved Range' – MALCOLM GLADWELL, AUTHOR OF OUTLIERS

'Fascinating . . . if you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' – BILL GATES, FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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‘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 twenty-first century survival guide’ Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World

‘It’s a joy to spend hours in the company of a writer as gifted as David Epstein’ Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet

‘A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page’ James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic Habits

A Financial Times Essential Reads of 2019 pick

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A powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.

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 or 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509843523
• ISBN 13: 9781509843527
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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