This is our last show before Mark and I take a bit of a break. Heck, we’ve been going non-stop with daily episodes since March, so we need to recharge the batteries. Don’t worry, there will still be shows (and guests!) coming your way!

Now more than ever, it seems the more you know, the better off you’ll be, especially in your career.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. 

But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.     

Our guest in hour two, David Epstein, uses his latest book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, to examine the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields, especially those that are complex and unpredictable, generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. 

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