![]() ![]() In the most rewarding domains of life, generalists are better positioned than specialists to excel. ![]() ![]() Breadth is the ally of depth, not its enemy. If you don’t, others will have a head start on you in the 10,000 hours of “ deliberate practice” supposedly necessary for breakout achievement.īut this message is perversely wrong - so David Epstein seeks to persuade us in “Range.” Becoming a champion, a virtuoso or a Nobel laureate does not require early and narrow specialization. To attain genuine excellence in any area - sports, music, science, whatever - you have to specialize, and specialize early: That’s the message. ![]() And a lot of thinking in current pop-psychology agrees. If you seek to do many things, you’ll taste a wider variety of human goods, but you may end up a well-rounded mediocrity - a dilettante.įolk wisdom holds the trade-off between breadth and depth to be a cruel one: “jack-of-all-trades, master of none,” and so forth. If you concentrate on doing one thing, you might have a chance of doing it really well. Your time on earth is finite, as are your energy and attention. RANGE Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World By David EpsteinĪre you a generalist or a specialist? Do you strive for breadth or depth in your career, in your life? After all, you can’t have both. ![]()
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