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The Benefits of Being a Podcast Generalist
If you want to achieve success in pretty much anything you do–podcasting included–it helps if you’re really damn good at it.
Of course, the way way to get good at any pursuit is practice.
You might have heard of the so-called 10,000-Hour Rule developed by K Anders Ericsson and popularized by Malcolm Gladwell which states that to achieve mastery in a pursuit requires 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
The exact numbers of hours have been heavily debated, but the core premise seems to make sense:
Truly mastering your craft requires focus, discipline, and specialization in a specific skill.
Right?
It turns out that the focus on specialization might be overblown. As David Epstein shares in his fantastic TEDx talk, while specialists often get an early head start, generalists often make up for it and more in the long run.
This might be no more apparent than in the case of Roger Federer who, far from committing to tennis at a young age, played nearly every sport imaginable before settling on the sport he would come to dominate.
So what does this have to do with podcasting?
