Why People with "Too Many Interests" Are More Likely to Succeed

Chakraborty pushes back on the "jack of all trades, master of none" cliché, drawing on David Epstein's Range to argue that in complex, fast-changing fields, generalists with broad pattern-recognition reliably outperform deep specialists. He pairs Roger Federer's late-specialised, multi-sport childhood with Tiger Woods's narrow early focus, then extends the case to scientists, entrepreneurs, and writers — people whose "too many interests" turn out to be precisely the cognitive substrate for the analogical thinking that great work requires.