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  Modern Wisdom

  Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) - David Epstein - #1121 · Jul 2026

  Specialisation Is For Insects - David Epstein - #084 · Jul 2019

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  Freakonomics Radio
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  Longform

  Episode 348: David Epstein · Jun 2019

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  Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

  David Epstein – Wide or Deep? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.133] · May 2019

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  Decoder with Nilay Patel

  Recode Decode: David Epstein · Jan 2020

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  Masters of Scale

  Author David Epstein on why constraints fuel innovation · May 2026

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  People I (Mostly) Admire

  35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything · Aug 2026

  35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything · Jul 2021

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  The Bill Simmons Podcast
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  The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

  Most Replayed Moment: You’re Supposed to Feel Lost! The Truth About Career & ‘Success’ - David Epstein · Aug 2025

  David Epstein: 10,000 Hours Is A Lie! The Morning Habit That’s Secretly Ruining Your Day! · Sep 2024

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  The Peter Attia Drive

  #96 - David Epstein: How a range of experience leads to better performance in a highly specialized world · Mar 2020

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  The Rich Roll Podcast

  David Epstein On Why Constraints Drive Creativity, The Myth Of Productive Freedom, & How Limits Make Us Better · May 2026

  David Epstein On Why Late Bloomers Win · Sep 2019

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  EconTalk

  Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein) · May 2026

  David Epstein on Mastery, Specialization, and Range · May 2019

  David Epstein on the Sports Gene · Sep 2013

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  Plain English with Derek Thompson

  Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success · May 2026

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  Pablo Torre Finds Out

  Bobbleheads on Spikes: The (Selfish) Case for Rules, with David Epstein · Apr 2026

  The Science of the Trans Athlete Debate, Made Easy(ish) · Jan 2025

  What You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence (and Why Centaurs Are Our Future) · Oct 2023

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  The School of Greatness

  Too Many Options Are Ruining Your Best Work | David Epstein · May 2026

  Your Best Work Comes From Following Your Curiosity | David Epstein · Jul 2019

  Rigid Goals Are Quietly Holding You Back | David Epstein · Jul 2019

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  Conversations with Bill Kristol

  David Epstein: The Political Ideas of The Federalist · Aug 2021

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  The Human Upgrade

  David Epstein on the Sports Gene & the Science of Extraordinary Performance – #153 · Sep 2014

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  Intelligence Squared

  David Epstein On Why Generalists Are More Successful Than Specialists · Jan 2021

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  The Dave Chang Show

  David Epstein: The Paradox of (Non-)Expertise | The Dave Chang Show · Dec 2019

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  StarTalk Radio

  Making a Phenom: Genetics · Jun 2020

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  The Jordan Harbinger Show

  1345: David Epstein | How Constraints Make Us Better · Jun 2026

  342: David Epstein | Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World · Apr 2020

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  Hidden Forces

  David Epstein | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in Today's Specialized World · Jan 2020

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  The Psychology Podcast

  Best of Series: Where Does Greatness Come From? With David Epstein · Dec 2023

  David Epstein || Where Does Greatness Come From? · Jan 2023

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  Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

  Author David Epstein on Sports Gene, Curiosity, Self-Discovery · Nov 2017

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Others on Modern Wisdom

• Sasha Hamdani
• Stan Tatkin
• Codie Sanchez
• Kanika Batra
• David Sinclair
• Johnny Chang
• Daniel Lieberman
• Jimmy Carr
• Peter Santenello
• Bill Thompson
• Jett Franzen
• Darby Saxbe
• all 740 guests

Others on Freakonomics Radio

• Aravind Srinivas
• Sam Altman
• Lisa Randall
• David Duchovny
• Arthur Brooks
• Roy Baumeister
• Morgan Housel
• Stephen Wolfram
• Erik Brynjolfsson
• David Eagleman
• Robert Langer
• Matt Ridley
• all 664 guests

Others on Longform

• Derek Thompson
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Jay Caspian Kang
• John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Joseph Cox
• Kelsey McKinney
• Lindsay Peoples
• Lissa Soep
• Megan Kimble
• PJ Vogt
• Rachel Khong
• Rozina Ali
• all 512 guests

Others on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

• Marc Andreessen
• Aravind Srinivas
• Sam Altman
• David Senra
• Bill Gurley
• Morgan Housel
• Brad Jacobs
• Joe Liemandt
• Rory Sutherland
• Dylan Patel
• Tyler Cowen
• Patrick Collison
• all 484 guests

Others on Decoder with Nilay Patel

• Demis Hassabis
• Sundar Pichai
• Aravind Srinivas
• Steve Aoki
• Ro Khanna
• Eugenia Kuyda
• Ronan Farrow
• Mustafa Suleyman
• Brian Chesky
• Joseph Cox
• Ben Smith
• Casey Newton
• all 827 guests

Others on Masters of Scale

• Marc Andreessen
• Mark Cuban
• Sam Altman
• Barack Obama
• Stephen Colbert
• Tom Freston
• Arthur Brooks
• Ken Burns
• James Dyson
• Phil Knight
• Satya Nadella
• Mark Zuckerberg
• all 495 guests

Others on People I (Mostly) Admire

• Irving Finkel
• Brian Cox
• Rick Rubin
• Charles Duhigg
• Steven Pinker
• James Nestor
• Annie Duke
• Tom Holland
• Jane Goodall
• Suleika Jaouad
• Suzanne O'Sullivan
• Ken Goldberg
• all 160 guests

Others on The Bill Simmons Podcast

• Derek Thompson
• Mark Cuban
• Dana White
• Sterling K. Brown
• Barack Obama
• Spike Lee
• Ben Stiller
• Mike Birbiglia
• Seth Meyers
• Nick Kroll
• Sarah Silverman
• Bill Burr
• all 442 guests

Others on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

• Leanne ten Brinke
• David Friedberg
• Ed Zitron
• Brian Greene
• Andy Galpin
• Seth Godin
• Michael Saylor
• Robert Pape
• Alex Hormozi
• Stephanie Estima
• Paul Rosolie
• Graham Hancock
• all 449 guests

Others on The Peter Attia Drive

• Andrew Huberman
• Patrick Radden Keefe
• Colleen Cutcliffe
• Chris Hemsworth
• Andy Galpin
• David Sinclair
• Arthur Brooks
• Oliver Burkeman
• Joe Liemandt
• James Clear
• Paul Conti
• Rick Rubin
• all 217 guests

Others on The Rich Roll Podcast

• Paul Rosolie
• Andrew Huberman
• Charan Ranganath
• Bassem Youssef
• Marc Brackett
• Hunter Biden
• Mike Birbiglia
• Erin Brockovich
• Mel Robbins
• Andy Galpin
• Seth Godin
• David Sinclair
• all 609 guests

Others on EconTalk

• Marc Andreessen
• Jennifer Burns
• Jordan Peterson
• Sam Altman
• Robert Wright
• Arthur Brooks
• Richard Reeves
• Will Guidara
• Roy Baumeister
• Tim Ferriss
• Rory Sutherland
• Benedict Evans
• all 656 guests

Others on Plain English with Derek Thompson

• Darby Saxbe
• Daniel Lieberman
• Robert Wright
• Ezra Klein
• Richard Reeves
• Nir Eyal
• Cal Newport
• Oliver Burkeman
• Paul Eastwick
• Morgan Housel
• Ken Burns
• C. Thi Nguyen
• all 219 guests

Others on Pablo Torre Finds Out

• Derek Thompson
• Craig Jones
• Mark Cuban
• Chris Hayes
• Ro Khanna
• C. Thi Nguyen
• David Kwong
• David Remnick
• Nate Silver
• Michael Lewis
• Megan Rapinoe
• Roy Wood Jr
• all 213 guests

Others on The School of Greatness

• Jordan Peterson
• Andrew Huberman
• Sara Walker
• Charan Ranganath
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Marc Brackett
• Steve Aoki
• Leslie John
• Sasha Hamdani
• Elizabeth Smart
• Kerry Washington
• Mel Robbins
• all 743 guests

Others on Conversations with Bill Kristol

• Arthur Brooks
• Nicholas Eberstadt
• John McWhorter
• Edward Glaeser
• Charles Murray
• Leah Boustan
• Anne Applebaum
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Christine Rosen
• Francis Fukuyama
• Garry Kasparov
• Jonah Goldberg
• all 126 guests

Others on The Human Upgrade

• Graham Hancock
• Andrew Huberman
• Charan Ranganath
• Kimbal Musk
• Steve Aoki
• Colleen Cutcliffe
• David Sinclair
• Stephen Porges
• Arthur Brooks
• Nir Eyal
• Bryan Johnson
• Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• all 842 guests

Others on Intelligence Squared

• Julia Shaw
• Keyu Jin
• Demis Hassabis
• Douglas Murray
• Derek Thompson
• Jordan Peterson
• Charan Ranganath
• Annie Jacobsen
• Patrick Radden Keefe
• Kathryn Paige Harden
• Brian Cox
• Brian Greene
• all 1285 guests

Others on The Dave Chang Show

• Chris Young
• Lena Waithe
• Nick Kroll
• Ike Barinholtz
• Will Guidara
• Steven Rinella
• Michael Mina
• Adam Grant
• Bill Simmons
• Rian Johnson
• Jimmy Kimmel
• Dax Shepard
• all 233 guests

Others on StarTalk Radio

• Terence Tao
• Janna Levin
• Elon Musk
• Sara Walker
• Sean Carroll
• Ben Stiller
• Jordan Klepper
• Seth Meyers
• Brian Cox
• Stephen Colbert
• Jeff Goldblum
• Brian Greene
• all 697 guests

Others on The Jordan Harbinger Show

• Paul Rosolie
• Marc Andreessen
• Charan Ranganath
• Andrew Callaghan
• Mark Cuban
• Annie Jacobsen
• Christopher Whitcomb
• Rachel Zoffness
• Amir Levine
• Justin Garcia
• Chelsea Handler
• Seth Godin
• all 583 guests

Others on Hidden Forces

• Saagar Enjeti
• Sean Carroll
• Serhii Plokhy
• Cal Newport
• Dylan Patel
• Daniel Yergin
• Diana Walsh Pasulka
• John Mearsheimer
• Balaji Srinivasan
• Steve Keen
• Jonathan Haidt
• Nicole Perlroth
• all 401 guests

Others on The Psychology Podcast

• Julia Shaw
• Jordan Peterson
• Andrew Huberman
• Sean Carroll
• Marc Brackett
• Kathryn Paige Harden
• David Sinclair
• Robert Wright
• Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Arthur Brooks
• Mark Manson
• Roy Baumeister
• all 341 guests

Others on Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

• Andrew Huberman
• Charan Ranganath
• Marc Brackett
• Rachel Zoffness
• Colleen Cutcliffe
• Seth Godin
• David Sinclair
• Stephen Porges
• Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Arthur Brooks
• Mark Manson
• Nir Eyal
• all 482 guests