Summary
Adam Grant: Hidden Potential: How to Achieve Extraordinary Success
Adam Grant's book "Hidden Potential" reveals how each of us can thrive and achieve great things. The real measure of our potential is not the height of the peak we conquer, but how much effort we put in to reach it. We live in a world obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students, born athletes and child musical geniuses. While admiring those who start their lives and careers with natural advantages, we forget how far we can go on our own. We can all improve our abilities. And when an opportunity does not arise, we can always create it. "Hidden Potential" teaches us how to fuel our ambitions and exceed expectations. Adam Grant combines ground-breaking evidence, surprising insights and vivid storytelling, taking us from the classroom to the principal's office, from the playground to the Olympics and even from the underground to outer space. It shows that progress depends on both effort and the quality of learning, and is not based on genius. The author explores how to build character skills and motivational structures to realize potential, as well as how to create learning and development systems that provide opportunities for those who have been undervalued and neglected.
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