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Podcast: Blinkist Podcast - Interviews | Personal Development | Productivity | Business | Psychology
Episode: David Epstein on the Olympics and Why 10,000 Hours Won’t Make You Great
Description: Today, we have the author of the The Sports Gene, David Epstein. The Sports Gene is a New York Times bestseller about exactly what it sounds like: whether or not there are things that make certain people preternaturally more likely to be great athletes.
It feels like a perfect thing to talk about considering, you know, the Olympics start today. So Ben and David talk about some of the greatest physical specimens in the world, one athlete you must watch out for in Rio, and the central weakness of the 10,000 rule everyone always talks about. Oh, and also, if aliens...