Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guest this week is David Epstein. David is a writer and researcher extraordinaire and the author of two great books. His second, Range, is out today and I highly recommend it. We discuss the pros and cons of both the generalist and specialist mindsets in detail and go down many interesting trails along the way. Please enjoy our conversation.
So David, thanks for being here with me. We've got a whole ton to discuss, covering your two books and a lot of your other writing. I know you're interested in a million things. We're going to go all over the place.
The Sports Gene
Since the antecedents for your latest book, Range, really are buried in your first book, The Sports Gene, I thought it'd be fun to start there, and really focus on what you discovered in the first book's research that led you to get so interested in this idea of specialization versus broader set of interests. Maybe talk about that, what you uncovered, the kernel that you uncovered in The Sports Gene that's led to this later research.