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Hidden Potential

The Science of Achieving Greater Things

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Hidden Potential

By: Adam Grant
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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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If you are interested in the areas of organisational, team or individual development this book is a must read. With the perfect blend of research and great story telling, this book will get you hooked. I have been a believer of one’s reaction to adversities can determine both potential and personal development. This book has perfectly presented that point.

This book will make you think about your understanding of potential, talent, capability etc

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Hidden Potential is engaging and inspiring, with really good stories and research. I really enjoyed listening to this book.

Inspiring

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Great case studies of people that persisted and achieved great heights - normally after starting from a hardship or disadvantage. What to learn? How to measure?

The best story is probably the epilogue where Adam describes his come back from writing difficulties at the start of university and what he did to turn it around. A very personal and humbling reflection to share.

Humble clarity and Adam’s usual deep insights

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I loved the stories about persistence. Albeit I'd also like to hear stories where persistence didn't pay off for balance.

just worth it, especially if you hire people

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Adam has done it again with very insightful, helpful and well researched strategies to get more out of work. From how you can find your potential, work with others to make 1 + 1 into 10 or enabling you to identify the potential in cadedates.

Thank you Adam

Building potential

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