📖How Falling Behind Can Get You Ahead

authors
David Epstein
year
2020
url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2_BwqcFsc
  • Elite performers have less hours of deliberate practice early on because they try different things and they specialize later

  • If you specialize early, you are more likely to quit later

  • Early specialization has better short-term benefits, but late specialization is better long-term

  • Kind vs. Wicked learning environment

    • golf and chess examples of early specialization and deliberate practice are probably hard to extrapolate to other activities as they are kind learning environments and most of the world is wicked

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