Do You Feel Like You Have Hidden Potential?

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Have you ever learn the bestseller Hidden Potential by Adam Grant? Do you’re feeling like you have got hidden potential, or that you can be attaining larger issues? (And do you suppose there’s an excessive amount of emphasis on people who find themselves born excessive achievers versus individuals who develop into excessive achievers?)

Printed in October 2023, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant has develop into the number-one bestseller in Amazon’s “private transformation” class. It’s a New York Instances bestseller as nicely. Grant additionally wrote Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, about “the vital artwork of rethinking,” and has accomplished a couple of TED Talks.

Let’s talk about Hidden Potential as we speak!

In Grant’s viewpoint, the world is “obsessive about expertise,” and we should always assign extra worth to creating expertise and enhancing ourselves — how far we’ve come versus the place we’re as we speak. Not solely does he give attention to progress, and the worth of development mindset, however he emphasizes the significance of studying nicely and creating character. The purpose is to unlock your hidden potential and to assist others do the identical.

Readers, tell us: Have you ever learn Hidden Potential (or is it in your TBR listing)? What did you suppose? Did it change your perspective or provide help to in your profession?

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By the best way, it’s a good time to purchase this ebook, as a result of proper now the Kindle worth is just $4.99.

Under are a few excerpts to kickstart our dialogue:

After we assess potential, we make the cardinal error of specializing in beginning factors — the skills which might be instantly seen. In a world obsessive about innate expertise, we assume the folks with probably the most promise are those who stand out immediately. However excessive achievers range dramatically of their preliminary aptitudes. If we choose folks solely by what they’ll do on day one, their potential stays hidden.

You’ll be able to’t inform the place folks will land from the place they start. With the fitting alternative and motivation to study, anybody can construct the abilities to realize larger issues. Potential shouldn’t be a matter of the place you begin, however of how far you journey. We have to focus much less on beginning factors and extra on distance traveled.

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[Your preferred learning style] isn’t fastened, and enjoying solely to your strengths deprives you of the chance to enhance in your weaknesses.

The best way you prefer to study is what makes you snug, nevertheless it isn’t essentially the way you study finest. Generally you even study higher within the mode that makes you probably the most uncomfortable, as a result of it’s a must to work tougher at it. That is the primary type of braveness: being courageous sufficient to embrace discomfort and throw your studying model out the window. (from this longer excerpt that makes use of an instance from Steve Martin’s profession)

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What do you suppose, readers — both about Grant’s ebook or the excerpts above? Have you ever thought-about your hidden potential and the way you would possibly obtain it, or helped somebody discover theirs?