Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
By David King
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.
352 pp. $28 (hardcover).
In recent years, many people have embraced specialization as the preferred method for cultivating elite performance in fields such as sports, medicine, music, and robotics. Parents, coaches, and teachers are pushing children at increasingly earlier ages to become specialists through lots of deliber…



