Most Popular Books by David Epstein

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN''s Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

The New York Times bestseller – with a new afterword about early specialization in youth sports – from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The debate is as old as physical competition. Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training? In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success and the so-called 10,000-hour rule, David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving it. Through on-the-ground reporting from below the equator and above the Arctic Circle, revealing conversations with leading scientists and Olympic champions, and interviews with athletes who have rare genetic mutations or physical traits, Epstein forces us to rethink the very nature of athleticism.

Now adapted for young readers, David Epstein''s #1 New York Times bestseller Range is full of inspiring stories of athletes, musicians, artists, and scientists, determining that excellence and expertise is built off of trying many things rather than specializing at a young age. For years, experts have been saying that to become the best at something, one must focus on that skill and only that skill for thousands of hours. But recent research has shown that this school of thought is not necessarily true. In Range, David Epstein carefully examines the world’s most successful people and discovers that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable— by far the greatest athletes, artists, musicians, and scientists are those who have garnered a wide skillset beginning at a young age, not those who specialized early in one skill. Carefully adapted for young readers, this book follows inspirational stories of athletes, artists, scientists, and other accomplished adults across many disciplines and provides you with the tools to tap into your limitless potential. How will you expand your range? This is an accessible and fun social sciences book, with fun behind-the-scenes stories of incredible achievers and their accomplishments, perfect for sports fans and those trying to find their path.

THE STORY: Three lifelong buddies, Vietnam vets, are about to pay off a balloon on money borrowed from a local heavy. They meet at their New Jersey bar and grill to set up for a celebration: After years of hard work, they will finally own the pla

A pathbreaking new perspective on derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed.

A fundamental concept in all syntactic theories is that of a syntactic relation between syntactic objects. While recent work in the Minimalist Framework has attempted to explain the nature of syntactic objects in terms of simple and conceptually necessary assumptions regarding the language faculty, the relations that hold between syntactic objects has not been similarly explored. The authors initiate such an exploration and argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building.This approach has significant consequences concerning the architecture of the syntactic component. Semantic and phonological interpretation need not operate upon the output phrase-structure representation created by the syntactic derivation. Interpretation is more readily computed derivationally, by interpreting the steps of a derivation, rather than the single output structure created by it. The result is a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty. This topical and timely Minimalist analysis will interest professional and theoretical linguists, syntacticians, and anyone interested in contemporary approaches to syntactic theory.

The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. This volume makes a vital contribution to substantive and methodological debates in linguistic theory.

This study investigates the distribution of traces and their antecedents. The first chapter outlines the Government and Binding theory, enabling those unfamiliar with this framework to understand the ensuing discussion. The second chapter concerns the Empty Category Principle. Argument/adjunct asymmetries are shown to follow from an independently motivated indexing algorithm, which entails that adjuncts display an impoverished indexing. The third chapter deduces the properties of A-chains from independently motivated principles, offering a thorough examination of Super-Raising, Improper Movement, and the Local Binding Condition. The final chapter challenges the standard assumptions regarding Case requirements on traces.

This study, first published in 1987, explores how personal hatred - ''inimicitia'' - could arise and how it was often central in the formation of political factions. In particular, groups opposing such powerful figures as Pompey and Caesar might be united by nothing more than common hatred of the individual. An important feature too was the criminal trial, because of the highly personal nature of the Roman adversary system at the time.

Examining the elements of musical structure and the ways they provide unity, coherence and uniqueness in classic-romantic music, the author defines the concept of Grundgestalt, or "basic shape" and follows its development from the music of the classic-romantic Viennese school to the twelve-tone compositions of Schoenberg.

A comparison of various criminal procedures in the United States.

Epstein investigates the relationship between the ineffable art of music and the hard science of neurobiology. He integrates philosophic and scientific inquiry to formulate a theory of the fundamental yet elusive quality in music time. Derived from an analytical study of motion, tempo and emotion, Shaping Time offers a theory of the way we percieve, perform and interpret music. Epstein suggests that audience satisfaction with a musical performance results from timing trajectories established by the performer at the beginning of the piece. When the timing of a performance conflicts with audience anticipation, listeners experience physical and affective discomfort. Epstein applies his thesis to a wide range of examples for the repertoire.

This Supplement is designed to accompany Baldwin, Brand, Epstein, and Gordon''s International Civil Dispute Resolution: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, which sets forth the key legal and practical issues to successfully handle international dispute resolutions.

"This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory-explanation via simplification-and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor considerations. Bringing together recent papers on the topic by Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely, with one by Epstein, Seely and Obata, and one by Kitahara, the book begins with an introduction which situates the papers in a cohesive overview of some of the latest research on Minimalism, as facilitated by current theoretical developments. The volume integrates a historical overview of evolutions in Merge starting with Chomsky''s (pre-Merge) Aspects model to current theoretical models, including a primer of Chomsky''s most recent theory of Merge based on the concept of Workspace. The Minimalist notions of ''perfection'' and ''simplification'' are also outlined, providing clearly-explicated coverage of key technical concepts within the framework as applied to grammatical phenomena. Taken as a whole, the collection both introduces and advances Minimalist theory for students and scholars in linguistics and related sub-disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, as well as offering new directions for future research for researchers in these fields"--

最新研究實證， 贏在起跑點、一萬小時的刻意練習可能是成功的絆腳石。 願意多方嘗試、累積多重專業、能策略思考……. 才是未來最需要的人才！ ★ 未上市即榮登亞馬遜分類暢銷榜NO.1 ★ 推翻《異數》的觀點，卻獲得《異數》作者葛拉威爾的支持與肯定 ★ 《安靜，就是力量》、《未來人才》、《給予》……多位暢銷作家讚聲推薦 ★ 歐普拉雜誌》2019年度最佳非文學圖書 ★ 橫跨體育、教育、音樂、天文、藝術、科學、商業、醫學、職涯等各界案例 ★ 版權售出：美國、英國、西班牙、中國、韓國 老虎伍茲7個月大開始推桿、莫札特從小彈琴鍵…… 這些成功典範讓許多人認為，及早學習、刻意練習、恆毅力，是成功的捷徑， 要避免沒有固定專長、一直換工作、半途而廢、三分鐘熱度…… 《紐約時報》暢銷作家大衛．艾波斯坦（David Epstein）， 研究世界最頂尖的運動員、藝術家、音樂家、發明家、預測家和科學家， 他發現，更多成功人士年輕時繞了許多路，做過不同工作，甚至討厭工作…… 但最後也都在某個專業領域大放異彩，甚至之所以成功就因具備別的經驗與專長── ．賈伯斯旁聽過書法課，成為設計MAC電腦字型的靈感來源 ．網球世界冠軍費德勒，小時候比較喜歡踢足球 ．任天堂第一位開發部長橫井軍平，因喜歡「造物」而救了即將破產的公司 這些頂尖人士不只專精，還能觸類旁通，發揮創意； 那為什麼未來世界將需要更多這類跨能、思考多元的人才？ ◎ 「一萬小時法則」練就的技能，輕而易舉就被AI取代 世界棋王從小學習各種「戰術」，可以預測接下來的幾步棋， 但AI的計算能力極強，每秒能計算2億步棋， 就連每個人手機裡的免費APP都比棋王強，人類多年磨練的棋藝很容易就被取代。 然而，最後打敗AI的，反而是擅於「戰略」思考的電玩專家， 跨領域運用原本擅長電玩的能力，讓不懂思考的AI甘拜下風。 這證明了AI非萬能，只要人類跨領域思考，善用整合能力，仍然可以反敗為勝。 ◎ 環境變化多端，不懂應變，再專業也派不上用場 多數人以為專業的消防員在任何火災現場都能救火， 但就算身經百戰的消防員，只要從平房換到大樓或森林大火， 反而容易判斷失準，造成嚴重損傷。 真正的專業是，有辦法跨能應變，不管換到任何環境，都不受限制，也能正常發揮。 ◎ 單一專業，成了嚴重的盲點 近二十年都未被完全清除的海上廢油，讓多名專家束手無策。 一名「門外漢」卻從「思樂冰」與「混擬土」得到靈感， 只花了3頁A4紙的篇幅就提出方案，並順利解決。 艾波斯坦指出，有些領域需要早起步的人， 不過，在21世紀，科技把世界變成環環相扣的複雜系統， 人人都需要跨領域的思考習慣和方法， 才能成為有廣度、多元、跨能的人才，如同一把多功能的瑞士刀── ．先多元嘗試、多方涉獵，再「延後專攻」 ．工作像是約會對象，別在第一次工作時就想選定終生 ．善用「概念分類」的科學眼光，讓認知更有彈性 ．靠「費米式思考」，就能憑有限知識拆解問題 ．運用「門外漢思維」，能打破被專業蒙蔽的雙眼 ．不怕落居人後，效率、成績好不等於進步，慢慢學成效反而最好 本書橫跨體育、教育、音樂、天文、藝術、科學、商業、醫學、職涯等各界案例， 顛覆傳統觀點、引人入勝，說明成功的關鍵無法簡化，也不只有一種方法， 讓你不必苦練一萬個小時，也能成為廣泛思考、經驗豐富和觀點多元的跨能通才！ 名人推薦 【國內跨能推薦】 陳永隆博士｜《跨界思考》作者 楊斯棓｜方寸管顧首席顧問、家醫科醫師 蔡依橙｜素養教育工作坊 核心講師 謝伯讓｜台大心理系副教授、《大腦簡史》作者 顏擇雅｜出版人、作家 蘇盈如 SandySu｜《2030轉職地圖》暢銷作家 【國外強力推薦】 麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾｜《異數》、《引爆趨勢》作者 丹尼爾‧品克｜《動機，單純的力量》、《什麼時候是好時候》作者 亞曼達‧瑞普立｜《教出最聰明的孩子》作者 瑪莉亞‧柯妮可娃｜心理學家、《福爾摩斯思考術》作者 賽巴斯提安‧鍾格｜知名記者、《超完美風暴》作者 蘇珊‧坎恩｜《安靜，就是力量》作者 【各界齊聲讚譽】 「身為人資工作者，我並不是完全同意內文的分析；同時我也發現這本書的理論，有兩派不同看法的人資工作者。正因為這樣，我覺得這本書很符合磨練『讀者的批判性思維』，由你自己決定書裡的通才或專才理論，是否符合你的求職處境，讓自己替自己找出最合適的答案。」── 蘇盈如 SandySu，暢銷書《2030轉職地圖》作家 「艾波斯坦告訴我，原來我先前所有想法都是錯的──而我莫名享受這種恍然大悟。我好愛這本書。」──麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾（Malcolm Gladwell），《引爆趨勢》（The Tipping Point）、《異數》（Outliers）作者 「我們已經相信單一成功之道太久了，認為要盡早起步，追求專精，著重效率。然而在這本石破天驚的大作裡，艾波斯坦指出大多數領域的成功之道其實截然不同，反而是廣泛涉獵，四處經歷，多繞遠路，多方嘗試。這本書至關重要，無比切時，無論主管、家長、教練或想提升表現的人都該好好一讀。」──丹尼爾‧品克（Daniel H. Pink），《動機，單純的力量》（Drive）、《什麼時候是好時候》（When）作者 「我想把這本書交給所有想學打鼓卻被逼練琴的孩子，所有暗自想當心理學家的程式設計師，所有希望人類在機器人時代昂首昌盛的人。這本書洋溢驚奇，滿是希望，堪稱二十一世紀的求生手冊。」──亞曼達‧瑞普立（Amanda Ripley），《教出最聰明的孩子》（The Smartest Kids in The World and how they got that way）作者 「這本書逼你重新思考學習、思維與生命的本質，反思對選修教育與職涯規畫的認知。」──瑪莉亞‧柯妮可娃（Maria Konnikova），心理學家、《福爾摩斯思考術》（Mastermind）作者 「歸功這本傑作，艾波斯坦擠身當代頂尖科普作家之列。這本書視野廣闊，觀點獨到，令人嘆為觀止。我把書中所學幾乎應用到生活的各方各面。」──賽巴斯提安‧鍾格（Sebastian Junger），知名記者、《超完美風暴》（The Perfect Storm）作者 「閱讀艾波斯坦這種天才作家的作品真是很享受，尤其書中道盡有關表現、成功與教育的真知灼見，讀來更是無比享受。」──蘇珊‧坎恩（Susan Cain），《安靜，就是力量》（Quiet）作者

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. David Epstein discovered that in most fields generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel.

In this path-breaking book, David Epstein and Sharyn O''Halloran produce the first unified theory of policy making between the legislative and executive branches. Examining major US policy initiatives from 1947 to 1992, the authors describe the conditions under which the legislature narrowly constrains executive discretion, and when it delegates authority to the bureaucracy. In doing so, the authors synthesize diverse and competitive literatures, from transaction cost and principal-agent theory in economics, to information models developed in both economics and political science, to substantive and theoretical work on legislative organization and on bureaucratic discretion.