The Sports Gene Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein is a science journalist and author of a book called The Sports Gene.

That's David Epstein, a science journalist and author of The Sports Gene.

I wrote a book called The Sports Gene. It's partly about how some super athletes are genetically different from the rest of us.

David Epstein, who's the author of a range and sports genius, friend of mine.

There's a book by David Epstein called The Sports Gene. And he makes an analogy between a player and a coach. And the analogy is just because you're a bird, it doesn't mean you can be an ornithologist.

I love when science people apply their science knowledge to other disciplines and this is great. So you're a science writer and you wrote a book, The Sports Gene Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.

That was published a few years ago. Who was the publisher of that? It was a division of Penguin Random House called Current.

So David, why do you have a job? Well, I wrote my book about sports genetics, everything I thought was known, and then I moved on to doing different stuff.

I talked about sudden death. So let me use that condition just as an example of why it's so hard.

I think there's a limitation, you know, to some of what we'll figure out in terms of a genetic basis.

David Epstein, who wrote The Sports Gene and Range, told me grit is fit - when you have a good fit with something, you're gritty.