Range by David Epstein
Book Analysis
Do you wish you had more reach with the work you do... or could do? Wish you had more opportunities? Do you wonder if prior work and skills are going to come into use in the future? Wonder if it is OK if you haven't found the "one thing" yet?
I read the book, Range, by David Epstein to answer these questions for you. This book is a extremely helpful to learn about about different case studies, examples, principles and worldviews to build and grow your Portfolio Career!
Some key ideas from the book mentioned:
- That CEO’s of fast-growing companies are on average 45 years old, providing them with more range (experiences, skills, relationships, etc)
- Career streams: being able to take information from one area and apply it to another area
- Musicians often grow up playing a bunch of instruments and are often self-taught. Shouldn’t knowledge workers look to be the same way?
- Hyper-correction effect: the more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities
- Spacing: the space between learning new skills creates hardness, creating capacity to learn new things in the meantime while still being able to go back to refresh and reuse a prior core and key skill.
-Learning slow on important skills. No need to have a “headstart” on something that the benefit of doing so does not matter as much
- Match quality: degree of fit between the work someone does and who they are
-The importance of experimentation and taking a lot of chances
-We are over-confident in our own decisions and investments, compared to others
-”We all works in progress claiming to be finished”
-Instead of asking whether someone is gritty, we should when they are gritty.
Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career with more range!