![]() ![]() In our present, “10,000-hours”-obsessed age, generalist approaches to problem solving and personal growth are getting short shrift. In a new book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World, the science writer David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene, comes out hard against what he sees as a recent cultural trend toward obsessive training and narrow expertise. You need to be great at something if you’re to have any hope of standing out and succeeding in an increasingly competitive world. If you’re a young person who hasn’t yet figured out what to do with your life, or the parent of one, you’ll likely hear that the most important thing for a young person to do is to find at least one area of interest and practice it endlessly - think “Tiger Moms” like Amy Chua - to become an incredibly talented X, where X is, well, whatever. ![]()
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