Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

　　屬於二十一世紀的成功學，可能跟你想像的不一樣！
　　顛覆你的既定認知，不用擔心是不是晚人一步，抬起頭打開視野，「通才」的世代已經來臨！

　　許多專家學者宣稱，如果想習得一技之長，或者成為任何領域中的佼佼者，都應該趁早學習、且分秒必爭地持續練習，才可能償其所願。只要稍一懈怠，便可能落得望他人項背之莫及的下場。造就焦急的父母在孩子還沒出生，就開始摩拳擦掌，也讓那些晚人一步才對於某個領域、技藝產生好奇的人，相信自己註定只能把這份喜好當成填補生活空白的興趣。

　　但真的是如此嗎？

　　在仔細看過專業運動選手乃至諾貝爾獲獎者等世界頂尖人才的研究報告後，我們發現，小時了了只是少數例外，而非鐵則。

　　本書作者David Epstein檢視全球最成功的運動員、藝術家、音樂家、資本家、趨勢預測專家和科學家們之後，得出一項結論：「通才較專才更容易通向卓越，且越是艱深難料的領域，越是如此。」一般而言，通才比較晚找到適合他們的道路，且會拓展多元興趣，而不會只有一項喜好。他們通常更有創意、更機靈，擁有更遼闊的視野，看見專才們所不能發現的關聯。

　　《Range》透過研究試著告訴我們：失敗才是最好的老師、總是半途而廢也可能反而發展出富足的職涯、而我們周遭裡最具影響力的那些開創者，通常跨足各領域而不只埋頭於單一範疇…當電腦正逐漸取代過往許多屬於專才的技能，保有無比的好奇心與嘗試的勇氣，思想廣袤而擁抱多元體驗及觀點的人，才會持續發光發熱。

　　「這是一本既重要又呼應當下社會的作品！老闆、父母、教練和所有力求精益求精的人們都應該讀讀它。」——《什麼時候是好時候》、《未來在等待的人才》丹尼爾．品克Daniel H. Pink力薦

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　　A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' - James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

　　The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.

　　The instant Sunday Times bestseller

　　From the ‘10,000 hours rule’ to the power of tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start.

　　This is completely wrong.

　　In this landmark book, David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, taking detours, experimenting relentlessly and juggling many interests – this is the power of developing range.

　　Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, Epstein demonstrates why, in most fields, generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Range has challenged the status quo, reshaped career paths and changed lives. Read it to view the world differently.

　　Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

　　'I loved Range' – Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers

　　'Fascinating . . . if you're a generalist who has ever felt overshadowed by your specialist colleagues, this book is for you' – Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft

David Epstein is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World , and of the New York Times best seller The Sports Gene, which has been translated in 18 languages. (To his surprise, it was purchased not only by his sister but also by President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.)

He was previously a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica, and prior to that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where he co-authored the story that revealed Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez had used steroids. His writing has been honored by an array of organizations, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and has been included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. His story “Following the Trail of Broken Hearts,” on sudden cardiac death in athletes, was chosen as one of the top 100 stories of the last 100 years by Columbia Journalism alumni.

David has given talks about performance science and the uses (and misuses) of data on five continents; his TED Talk has been viewed 8.5 million times, and was shared by Bill Gates. Three of his stories have been optioned for films: a Sports Illustrated story on the only living Olympian to have survived a concentration camp; an Atlantic/ProPublica piece detailing the DEA’s fraught pursuit of Chapo Guzman’s rivals; and a 2016 “This American Life” episode he wrote and narrated about a woman with two rare diseases who shares a mutant gene with an Olympic medalist.

David has master’s degrees in environmental science and journalism, and is reasonably sure he’s the only person to have co-authored a paper in the journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research while a writer at Sports Illustrated. (Like many of the characters in Range, he has benefitted from a winding career.) He has worked as an ecology researcher in the Arctic, studied geology and astronomy while residing in the Sonoran Desert, and blithely signed up to work on the D-deck of a seismic research vessel shortly after it had been attacked by pirates.

David enjoys volunteering with the Pat Tillman Foundation and Classroom Champions. An avid runner, he was a Columbia University record holder and twice NCAA All-East as an 800-meter