
RANGE: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialists’ World
The Next Big Idea
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What's a Good Example of a Wicked Sport?
I don't think any sports are that wicked. I think because they're all rule bound. What Hogarth said is that tennis is more wicked than golf. Tennis is dynamic. You have to use so-called anticipatory skills where the sport is actually happening too fast for you to react to. So it's quite conceivable that had he not played soccer Steve Nash would not have been a superb NBA player. It just so happens that I was emailing with Steve Nash about this last week, Canadian royalty and Steve's a big soccer fan. France which just won the World Cup overhauled its development pipeline starting decades ago to incorporate this.
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