10,000-hour rule vs Range
I have learned about the 10,000-hour rule of mastery from Malcolm Gladwell and other writers and researchers. That bit of knowledge made me feel sad because I did not have a perceived head start in anything. I was not working on any one thing and I was doing no deliberate practice at all with one skill. By that rule, I was and still am a total loser.
But then I came across this book Range by David Epstein (this surely does sound like those TV adverts for sauna belts to lose belly fat). This book profounds the idea that exploration is much more important in life to get a wide range of thinking patterns and slams the idea of running after specialization before we even have any breadth of experiences.
I love this book because it is a large dose of confirmation bias for me. I have always felt like an explorer. Not settling onto a thing and trying different fields of knowledge and activities in life. I read about and stay in touch with multiple sciences like astrophysics, anthropology, palaeontology, human behaviour, health and fitness. While I also work on my writing and business development with my colleagues.
The 10,000-hour rule made me feel guilty for years but this book has arrived like a prince charming to free me from my prison. That definitely came off as gay.
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