Tim Anderson

“In wicked domains, the rules of the game are often unclear or incomplete, there may or may not be repetitive patterns and they may not be obvious, and feedback is often delayed, inaccurate, or both.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“(It bears mentioning that cheerleading actually began as an exclusively male pursuit. Schools would select the most popular male students to rally up crowds with megaphones during games. It was only during World War II, when so many college men were drafted, that women began to replace them—a controversial move that some protested, fretting that for a girl to use her voice in such a way was unfeminine. When the men came back, they no longer wanted to participate in an activity that had been taken over by women.)”
― Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

“In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“As psychologist Ellen Winner, one of the foremost authorities on gifted children, noted, no savant has ever been known to become a “Big-C creator,” who changed their field.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World