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
Range is the groundbreaking and exhilarating exploration into how to be successful in the twenty-first century. Through fascinating stories and vividly explained research, David Epstein demonstrates why, as the world has got increasingly complex, developing range can help us excel.
David Epstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Sports Gene and Range. He has master's degrees in environmental science and journalism and has worked as an investigative reporter for ProPublica and a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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, New York Times bestselling author of Atomic
Habits*
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 Originals and Think Again*
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 Outliers*
An urgent and important book, an essential read for bosses,
parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving
performance
*Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is
Human*
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 Quiet*
Extraordinary
*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, writer and broadcaster*
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, The Times*
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 The Talent Code*
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 The Perfect
Storm*
One of the most thought-provoking and enlightening books I’ve
read
*Maria Konnikova, poker player and author of The Confidence
Game*
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 The Smartest Kids in the World.
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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
*Wall Street Journal*
A clear and unfussy writer . . . this book is likely to resonate
strongly with most teachers
*tes.com*
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