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b'YOU DON\\u2019T HAVE TO BE THE BEST. So often we feel behind. Other people have already figured out what they want. Other people got started earlier. They\\u2019re sure of the path they\\u2019re on. But that\\u2019s not necessarily a good thing. I would have never thought I\\u2019d end up where I am now. My whole life I\\u2019ve been a generalist. I\\u2019ve never been the best at anything. There was always someone bigger, faster, and stronger. But I had heart and vision, and I was willing to work just as hard. This allowed me to collect a lot of different skills. Those skills, even though they seem random, make me successful on the path I\\u2019m on now. If you take your time and follow your inspiration, you\\u2019ll end up somewhere you couldn\\u2019t have even imagined. On today\\u2019s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk about finding your perfect career path with an expert on fulfilling work: David Epstein. David Epstein is a New York Times bestselling author and a science and investigative reporter. He co-authored the story for Sports Illustrator that revealed Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez had used steroids. His writing has been honored by an array of organizations, from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and has been included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. David gives example after example of people who had diverse backgrounds that seemed unrelated to the thing they ended up being famous for. He says that his most important projects are things he never could have planned. So get ready to learn why setting rigid long term goals may actually hold you back on Episode 817.\\nSome Questions I Ask:\\nHow do we know what our best skills are? (22:30)\\nWhat advice would you give your son about figuring out his career? (23:30)\\nHow do we do the matching process for ourselves? (43:00)\\nWhy do we have an obsession with being the best? (57:00)\\nHow do we know when we\\u2019ve found fulfillment? (1:04:00)\\nIn This Episode You Will Learn:\\nAbout the concept \\u201cskill stacking\\u201d (10:00)\\nWhy David wrote his book on generalists (11:00)\\nAbout The Dark Horse Project (13:30)\\nWhy \\u201cself-regulatory learning\\u201d is the most beneficial (16:00)\\nAbout the \\u201cend of history allusion\\u201d (25:00)\\nHow David uses a \\u201cbook of experiments\\u201d (48:00)\\nWhy we get stuck in the rut of competence (52:00)'