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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things | Adam Grant
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"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress." --Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess--it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked. Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.
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ShelleyBooksie
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First ever book club overnight retreat. This porch was made for reading on beautiful fall days.

kspenmoll Looks so inviting! Enjoy! 1w
Deblovestoread Lovely! Have fun! 1w
dabbe 🖤🧡🖤 1w
PageShifter Sounds so lovely! I would love to know everything about your retreat!!! 7d
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janeycanuck
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Quite interesting, as Adam Grant always is, but a few days later, I'm remembering the case studies but not much in the way of the content...

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Floresj
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Adam Grant writes an inspirational book about character and provides some great motivational zingers. Lots of great anecdotes and the first half is excellent. The second half lost a little steam for me- there‘s a lot of athletic stories, and the education aspects were weaker than other chapters. Even still, it‘s an inspiring, quick book to lift spirits.

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behudd
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Overall I found it interesting, but none of it seemed like new information to me - more like stories & studies to back up things I already knew. Grant reads the audiobook, which feels like a long-form podcast, and there are quite a few differences between the audio & the hard copy-I‘d recommend the audio. If leadership studies or growing potential is an interest of yours, I would definitely recommend this.I‘m just not his prime audience.

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wanderinglynn
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#two4tuesday on Wednesday

1. It depends. I don‘t believe that merely thinking about something will make it appear, particularly when talking about tangible things (e.g., money, property). But I do believe in the power of positive thinking & that setting intentions will lead to positive outcomes.

2. The tagged, which comes out today. I enjoyed his book Think Again.

TheSpineView Thanks for playing!❤️📖 12mo
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