The Week Unwrapped podcast: meds, bonds and the 10,000-hour rule

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate
what really matters from the past seven days.

In this week’s episode, we discuss:

The 10,000-hour rule

A new book out this week questions everything we thought we knew
about getting ahead by specialising early. In Range, author David
Epstein gathers evidence to show how the world needs more
generalists, with implications for sport, music, innovation and
parenting.

Meds

As many as 970 million people around the world now suffer from
some sort of mental distress, according to the latest World Health
Organisation figures, with rates of depression and anxiety growing
more than 40% over the past 30 years. So what is behind that
growth? And could it be halted by changing the way mental illness
is diagnosed and treated?

Bonds

This week, the value of negative-yielding debt hit a record
$12.5tn. Why is this happening? And what does it suggest about the
state of the financial world and the global economy?

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