#david epstein

[sesiondemadrugada]

In Search of Greatness (Gabe Polsky, 2018).

[maaarine]

MBTI & Writers Isabel Allende: ENFP

“Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (born in Lima, Peru, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful.

Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author."

In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism.”

Sources: video, wiki/Isabel_Allende. Screencaps: transcript.

[swanlake1998]

kitty phetla photographed by david epstein

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Baby #2,

I'm in Fort Worth today for an all-day meet with our Water Team to develop ways to communicate their messages over the next year. It's always good to collaborate with folks we don't normally collaborate with. I read a book called Range by David Epstein recently and all day today I kept coming back to the idea in that book that to solve some problems, it can be extremely beneficial to bring in people who are from completely different backgrounds. It felt like some of that was happening today.

Dad.

Fort Worth, Texas. 5.5.2021 - 2.19pm.

[johnnyrico]

I've got a suspicion.

Remember Pizza Gate? Remember how ludicrous a lot of the claims that were discussed were?

Remember the CIA invented conspiracy theorist as a way to discredit people talking about legitimate issues like MK-ULTRA?

Notice that, in the wake of Epstein, more and more cultural and political elites are being implicated in sex crimes against women and children?

I wonder... I wonder if "Pizzagate" didn't start off as someone trying to blow that open years before.

I wonder if the very first attempts to bring it to national attention were more grounded. More in line with what's happening.

I wonder if the ludicrous claims associated with Pizzagate weren't damage control to paint the entire thing as ludicrous and not worthy of attention.

[luxe-pauvre]

Over time, as I delved further into studies about learning and specialisation, I came across more and more evidence that it takes time to develop personal and professional range – and that there are benefits to doing so. I discovered research showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident (a dangerous combination). And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too-often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient – it looks like falling behind. [...] Arturo Casadevall, an internationally renowned scientist, believes that increasing specialisation has created a “system of parallel trenches” in the quest for innovation. Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even if the solution to their problem happens to reside there. Casadevall is taking it upon himself to attempt to despecialise the training of future researchers; he hopes that eventually it will spread to training in every field. He profited immensely from cultivating range in his own life, even as he was pushed to specialise. And now he is broadening his purview again, designing a training programme in an attempt to give others a chance to deviate from the Tiger path. “This may be the most important thing I will ever do in my life,” he told me.

David Epstein, Generalise, don’t specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us

[dearnville]

[universitybookstore]

New from Riverhead Books and the bestselling author of The Sports Gene, David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.