Range
How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Published on 22. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-0350-5304-9 (ISBN)
Description
'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
The fifth-anniversary edition of the instant Sunday Times bestseller, as featured on Diary of a CEO.
The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful playbook for success in any field: develop range while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.
You may have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization, and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. This is completely wrong.
In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly and juggling many interests.
Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates how generalists often find their path relatively late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one.
Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths, inspired parents and changed lives. Read it to learn how to be more creative, more agile, and more capable of making the connections that your more specialized peers cannot see.
'If you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
'I loved Range' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers
The fifth-anniversary edition of the instant Sunday Times bestseller, as featured on Diary of a CEO.
The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful playbook for success in any field: develop range while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.
You may have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization, and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. This is completely wrong.
In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly and juggling many interests.
Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates how generalists often find their path relatively late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one.
Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths, inspired parents and changed lives. Read it to learn how to be more creative, more agile, and more capable of making the connections that your more specialized peers cannot see.
'If you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
'I loved Range' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers
Reviews / Votes
I think his ideas even help explain some of Microsoft's success, because we hired people who had real breadth within their field and across domains. If you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you -- Bill Gates A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page -- James Clear, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Atomic Habits</i> A captivating read that will leave you questioning the next steps in your career - and the way you raise your children -- Adam Grant, author of <i>Originals</i> and <i>Think Again</i> David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range -- Malcolm Gladwell, author of <i>Outliers</i> An urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance -- Daniel H. Pink, author of <i>Drive </i>and <i>To Sell is Human</i> It's a joy to spend hours in the company of a writer as gifted as David Epstein. And the joy is all the greater when that writer shares so much crucial and revelatory information about performance, success, and education -- Susan Cain, author of <i>Quiet</i> Extraordinary * The Guardian * The storytelling is so dramatic, the wielding of data so deft and the lessons so strikingly framed ... [it's] a pleasure to read . . . Range offers such a wealth of thought-provoking material * New York Times Books Review * Fabulous . . . If you are interested in champions' journeys, this is for you -- Judy Murray on Twitter Masterful. Perfect holiday reading -- Dr Adam Rutherford, scientist and broadcaster, author of <i>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived</i> Anyone contemplating a change of career late in life will find Range immensely reassuring. If you calculate that you don't have 10,000 hours left in which you can reasonably practice, you can use your range to connect ideas and use your varied experience -- Daniel Finkelstein, <i>The Times</i> Brilliant, timely, and utterly impossible to put down. If you care about improving skill, innovation, and performance, you need to read this book -- Daniel Coyle, author of <i>The Talent Code</i> Range elevates Epstein to one of the very best science writers at work today. The scope of the book - and the implications - are breathtaking -- Sebastian Junger, filmmaker and author of <i>The Perfect Storm</i> One of the most thought-provoking and enlightening books I've read -- Maria Konnikova, poker player and author of <i>The Confidence Game</i> I want to give Range to . . . everyone who wants humans to thrive in an age of robots. Range is full of surprises and hope, a 21st century survival guide -- Amanda Ripley, author of <i>The Smartest Kids in the World</i> Range is a convincing, engaging survey of research and anecdotes that confirm a thoughtful, collaborative world is also a better and more innovative one -- NPR.org As David Epstein shows us, cultivating range prepares us for the wickedly unanticipated . . . a well-supported and smoothly written case on behalf of breadth and late starts * The Wall Street Journal * A clear and unfussy writer . . . this book is likely to resonate strongly with most teachers -- tes.com The most important business - and parenting - book of the year * Forbes *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-5304-9 (9781035053049)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
David Epstein is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers The Sports Gene, Range, and Inside the Box. He holds master's degrees in environmental science and journalism and has worked as an as an investigative reporter for ProPublica and as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He lives in Washington, DC.
Content
Introduction - i: Roger vs. Tiger Chapter - 1: The Cult of the Head Start Chapter - 2: How the Wicked World Was Made Chapter - 3: When Less of the Same Is More Chapter - 4: Learning, Fast and Slow Chapter - 5: Thinking Outside Experience Chapter - 6: Finding Your Match Chapter - 7: Flirting with Your Possible Selves Chapter - 8: The Outsider Advantage Chapter - 9: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology Chapter - 10: Fooled by Experience Chapter - 11: Learning to Drop Your Familiar Tools Chapter - 12: Deliberate Amateurs Section - ii: Conclusion: Expanding Your Range Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Section - iv: Notes Index - v: Index