"What if…instead of the latest toy, the toy inside was journalism?" -@PabloTorre davidepstein.substack.com…

The theme on every page of Range (that would have made an unmarketable subtitle) is that head starts often undermine long-term development. ...Perfect holiday gift for that premature optimizer in your life!

I’ve spent over 20 years studying how people learn, adapt, and find success, and I wrote a New York Times bestseller called Range about why generalists thrive. So if you’ve ever felt behind in life, here’s something the science actually says 👇

I’ve spent 20 years studying how humans learn. Here are 3 science-backed ways to learn faster, and remember longer. 👇

That conversation was like riding a roller coaster! You never know what @Gladwell will come up with—which is why it's so ridiculously stimulating to talk to him.

Holy cow, that is crazy praise coming from a thinker I admire 🙏

False, because you're not going to tell people you did the 1pm workout which is basically like it didn't happen.

Yesterday, high schooler Cooper Lutkenhaus won the U.S. championship in the 800 meters. I ran the event in college, never seen anything like this. I recently interviewed cooper and his father about Cooper's upbringing and athletic development. Link below

I was about to reshare this before I even realized I'm in it. (And I still have a shuffle.)

As I said in the acknowledgments, now it's time for me to start learning from readers...

Fascinating article

He meant your half-mile time and nothing else compares.

@KeithMcCullough So glad you found something interesting in there, Keith. I've been following you for years!

One of the best pieces of professional advice I’ve ever received came from Malcolm Gladwell, and he didn’t even mean it as advice. 👇

When scientists study how top performers develop in sports, music, and careers a pattern keeps appearing. The people who eventually become the best are not the ones who specialize the earliest.