In issue 60, we referenced David Epstein’s New York Times bestseller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Today’s nugget features an excerpt from said book, selected by Ismail Ali Manik on his Medium blog.

The quoted passage tells the extraordinary story of the Polgar sisters, whom we had first met in the Harvard Business Review article on deliberate practice from issue 6. It’s an inspirational case study proving that geniuses are made, not born.

Read on to learn more about the genesis of Laszlo Polgar’s bold experiment, how he and his wife educated their three daughters, and how the experiment ended in great triumph!