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The opinions and ideas expressed on these external websites are those of third-party vendors and Pittenger & Anderson, Inc. Check it out! (Hat tip to my friends Phil and Jill for recommending this book to me.)Ĭlicking on the links above may result in you leaving the Pittenger & Anderson, Inc. There’s a reason this book earns 4.7 stars out of 5 on Amazon. “As ambiguity and uncertainty increases, which is the norm with systems problems, breadth becomes increasingly important.” “If you’re working on well-defined and well-understood problems, specialists work very, very well,” he told me.…highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident-a dangerous combination.Instead, they undergo what researchers call a “sampling period.” They play a variety of sports, usually in an unstructured or lightly structured environment they gain a range of physical proficiencies from which they can draw they learn about their own abilities and proclivities and only later do they focus in and ramp up technical practice in one area.
Eventual elites typically devote less time early on to deliberate practice in the activity in which they will eventually become experts.Here are a few snippets from Epstein’s book: Fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, of which I’m one, will be interested to read Range. And given today’s rapidly changing world, there’s a strong argument for focusing on breadth rather than depth. But as David Epstein points out in Range, that line of thinking only applies in certain cases.
For decades, the message has been clear: you (or your kids) must start early and specialize to be highly successful in a field or sport. And when you think of a violin prodigy or young chess champion, you probably assume they’ve spent 8 hours a day for years practicing their craft. If you’re a golf or sports fan, you’ve probably seen the video of a 2-year old Tiger Woods showing off his skills on a late-night TV show.
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