
If you thrive connecting ideas and constantly learning new things every day, then you need to read this book.Įarly specialization isn’t all it’s cracked up to beĭavid Epstein’s previous book investigated why some athletes succeed where others don’t, so it’s no surprise that his book starts with famous figures in sports. If you’ve ever wondered how to build a career without a deep STEM specialization, then you also need to read this book. If you have a background in the humanities or liberal arts, then you need to read this book. I have to be honest with you: this became one of my all-time favourite books before I even finished it. That is exactly the question that Range answers, and it does so brilliantly, like a prism refracting light into a dozen individual rays. Our world knows it needs specialists, which is where the “specialize early” rhetoric comes from-but it doesn’t really know how the rest of us succeed. Yet these benefits don’t always materialize-and even then, we couldn’t all be specialists even if we wanted to be. Specialty is supposed to insulate you from redundancy or automation.


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