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Do I think it's a five-star book? It's very hard for me to say, as I wrote the thing. By the time I'm done working on a book, I have such a strong insider view of the project that it's difficult to be objective. I will say this: I worked extremely hard on it, and as a writer, researcher, and reader, I found it to be much more interesting than my first book. Most readers enjoyed that first book--at least according to Goodreads ratings--so I hope most readers will (as I have) enjoy this one even m...
(Throwback Review)Is starting young and practicing a lot, and focusing on one specialization an essential factor for success? This book is trying to find an answer to this controversial yet crucial question What I learned from this book 1) Is experience the best teacher? The author says that extra focus on specialization making us dumber and tunnel-visioned to a certain extend and mentions that it is the reason why the generalists are triumphing over the specialists “Scientists examine
Perhaps needless to say, I really want the main argument in this book to be true. As someone who has been a quality control inspector in a chocolate factory, a house painter, a counter hopper in a post office, an archivist, a technical writer, a strategic researcher, an industrial officer in a trade union, and a research fellow – and initially who started a degree in physics and then shifted to do one in philosophy and professional writing and editing, then a graduate certificate in adult litera...
It has lately become an article of faith among many people, especially certain type-A parents, that to do anything well, one must spend 10,000 hours (or some other arbitrarily chosen criteria) practicing the activity, from playing the violin to mastering a foreign language to becoming an outstanding soccer player. Single-minded focus is recommended by the "tiger-mother" school of thinking, and is unfortunately inflicted on many children by well-meaning parents. David Epstein has done extensive r...
I actually read this book a while ago but just never got around to writing a review for it. I though the book had some very interesting points and stories in it but I found that the book dragged on for me and I wasn't always very excited to read it. I think the stories were interesting but the writing itself could have used some editing. That said, this is one of those books that has actually really stuck with me. I have found that there have been many times, especially when dealing with my chil...
There is a commonly held perception that starting young and specializing in a particular area is a key to success. It is easy to find examples of child prodigies, such as golfer Tiger Woods. However, Epstein contends that early specialization is only applicable in what he calls “kind” learning environments, where repetition (practice) leads to success. He has found that a journey of experimentation, diversification, and experience across a breadth of disciplines is even more important in most si...
Really enjoyable, really information, and jammed packed with confirmation bias.
As a believer in Charlotte Mason's generous feast, I knew the minute I heard about this book that I had to read it. It did start slow but this book snowballed itself through my mind gathering momentum during a long, lonely car trip. After finishing the audio I immediately bought the Kindle version because I plan to use much of this information in a talk I have already done a few times. This book illustrates so well how important a wide and generous feast is. Beating out Atomic Habits, another gr...
In a lot of ways, this book is a vindication of everything I hold dear.Why? Well, granted, it IS a vindication of a mindset that rebels against going down any single rabbit hole to the exclusion of everything else in this life, which is basically another way of saying that specialists are generally unable to see beyond their own field. Being widely read, having wide experiences, and knowing a ton of different fields lends the person in question a much greater chance to make creative connections
The story of the new U.S. Open golf winner illustrates part of the thesis of this book. A range of experience is sometimes better than over-specialization. In the book, Roger Federer is another example.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/sp...=======================This passage describes a key finding that is central to the book....James Flynn, is a professor of political studies in New ZealandFlynn’s great disappointment is the degree to which society, and particularly higher education, has resp...
I had wanted to read ‘Range’ since some time, having come across it in discussions at work. The content is without doubt critical and vital today – while there is an increasing trend towards specialization, the biggest innovations are multi-disciplinary. Some of the treatment in the book is simplistic, especially at the beginning, and not all scenarios are explored holistically, and yet – this is a thought provoking read. The book starts with a simplistic example comparing Tiger Woods and Roger
Now THIS is how you write a compelling non-fiction book! This has catapulted itself on my must-have shelf after the introduction alone!The topic is nothing new: specialized thinking vs. broad thinking. We have it in evolution in Darwin’s famous fitness of surviving species. It has nothing to do with size or teeth or muscle strength. Rather, it’s about adaptability. It also applies to thinking processes.Thus, the author examines the different psychological variations within the human population t...
