Sport lessons don’t transfer to real life

If you don’t know David Epstein’s work, then you should — he wrote The Sports Gene, which is well worth your time, and now has a new book out, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.

I heard Epstein discuss this book on a Longform podcast recently, when he said that one of his working titles was Roger and Tiger — as in, a comparison between someone like Roger Federer, who played a lot of different sports before focusing on tennis with some success, and Tiger Woods, who was famously focused on golf to the exclusion of everything else, almost, from the time he could walk.