2019-07-02
1 小时 10 分钟So maybe you're familiar with the 10,000 hours rule or the concept of deliberate practice, or maybe you've heard the advice that you've got to specialize as quickly as you can and just become completely and utterly amazing at one thing if you want to succeed in business and career in life.
Well, my guest today, David Epstein, is the author of a really provocative new book called Range.
And he's making a powerful, powerful research backed argument that, in fact, early specialization, diving deep into one thing, may be the worst thing that you can do, at least for a lot of the areas of life that really matter.
In fact, maybe breath, maybe range, maybe going wide intentionally and staying wide is the thing that will allow us to flourish.
The most really fascinating conversation.
We talk about this idea, we go deep into some of the research, some of the big awakenings.
We also explore his multifaceted career that ranges from environmental studies, living out in Arizona to being in New York City, to being in the Arctic Circle and living on a research vessel in the middle of the ocean.
Lots of really fun places that we stop.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I came to Columbia.
Okay.
Thought I was gonna study.
Well, I didn't really know.
I thought I was gonna go to the Air Force Academy, then came to Columbia, and I was like, political science wasn't really a fit for me.
Went out and lived at the biosphere two campus and was like, geology it is.
And so I ended up majoring geology in astronomy, got a master's degree in environmental science, but decided that that kind of narrowing career path also wasn't for me.
And so transitioned into journalism.
So what was it?
Where were you?