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“In the face of the unexpected, the range of available analogies helped determine who learned something new.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“Professors who excel at promoting contemporaneous student achievement,” the economists wrote, “on average, harm the subsequent performance of their students in more advanced classes.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“The outside view is deeply counterintuitive because it requires a decision maker to ignore unique surface features of the current project, on which they are the expert, and instead look outside for structurally similar analogies. It requires a mindset switch from narrow to broad.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“A recent international Gallup survey of more than two hundred thousand workers in 150 countries reported that 85 percent were either “not engaged” with their work or “actively disengaged.” In”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World