Range quotes

“The Federer story is the one the research actually supports for most domains.”

“Kind learning environments have clear rules, immediate feedback, and stable conditions — chess, golf, classical music.”

“The cultural pressure on parents is to eliminate the sampling period and commit early.”

“Students who struggle on a problem before being shown the solution remember the solution more durably than students who are walked smoothly through it.”

“Range is the precondition for analogical thinking because you cannot draw analogies from experiences you have not had.”

“Epstein's friendly disagreement with Angela Duckworth's grit thesis runs through this chapter.”

“The cultural script that calls them failures is the wrong script; they are the ones who did the late sampling that early commitment denied them.”

“InnoCentive, the open-innovation platform he profiles, runs experiments in which difficult R&D problems that have stumped specialist teams for years are posted publicly.”

“The chapter's central case study is Nintendo's strategy under Gunpei Yokoi, who explicitly chose to compete on old, well-understood technology rather than cutting-edge tech.”

“The mechanism is overconfidence: experts believe their domain knowledge produces predictive power that the data shows it does not.”