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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Best Career Switching Story I've Ever Heard

Bod: I had always done well in mareconomic courses as an undergraduate, but i had no intuition for it. Bod: When i was trying to re mycro theory, the third time that i sat down, me with him, he called me david instead of steve. After about six months, after knowing that some day he was going to figure out that i was not David, i quit theory based on that. That's the best career switching story i've ever heard, that you got too far in to letting him call you the wrong name that you simply could not bear.

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