I Studied Elite Performers For 20 Years So You Don't Have To

Subscribe to my newsletter for more stories and insights: https://davidepstein.substack.com/ 📕 If you liked this video, check out my new book, the NYT bestseller "Inside the Box": https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Box-Con... About this video: Rafael Nadal arranges his water bottles at a precise angle before every match. Salvador Dali napped holding a fork so it would clatter on a plate and wake him up. Ernest Hemingway stopped writing mid-sentence on purpose. Most of this sounds ridiculous. Some of it is. But after twenty years studying elite performers, I've found that almost all of these strange habits map onto something real about how attention, creativity, and decision-making actually work. About David: David Epstein is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and The Sports Gene. A former investigative reporter at ProPublica and senior writer at Sports Illustrated, his work explores the science of performance, learning, and human potential. His TED Talks have been viewed millions of times, and he writes the Range Widely newsletter, where he digs into research on how we work, learn, and live better.