![]() ![]() At age 2, this boy went on The Bob Hope Show and started driving golf balls on national TV. The US Government lists important developmental milestones at age 2 as ‘kicks a ball’ and ‘stands on tiptoes’. ![]() ![]() The boy couldn’t talk yet, so his father drew picture for him to show him where to place his hands and how to grip the club. At 10 months, he climbed down from his high chair and picked up a golf club (that had been cut down to size for him) and started imitating the swinging motion he’d watched his father do in the garage. Let’s start with a couple of famous stories from sport ONEĪt 7 months his dad gave him a golf putter to hold and he dragged it around with him in his walker. RANGE: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialised World This means going wide not deep, going through an early ‘sampling period’ where you test a lot of different potential paths forward, then recognising that switching careers later in life isn’t career suicide but you can actually combine different ideas from different fields to get an advantage. But the other approach is ‘generalisation’. This approach is popularised in many books and many biographies. One is ‘specialisation’: committing to a field early, getting a head start on your peers, rigorous deliberate practice, refining a narrow focus on specific skills. ‘How Generalists Triumph In A Specialised World’ ![]()
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