The essential and exhilarating exploration into how to be successful in the twenty-first century.
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.
Studying the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientist, Epestein discovered that in most fields-especially those that are complex and unpredictable-generalists,not specialist, are primed to excel is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly, juggling many interests-in other words, by developing range.