Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
#1 New York Times Bestseller 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.
Adam Grant is a Wharton organizational psychologist who has been the top-rated professor for the past seven years. He is an expert on how to discover drive and meaning in our life, as well as how to be more giving and creative. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four books: Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves, which have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 35 languages. Amazon, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journal have all named his books among the best of the year, and J.J. Malala Yousafzai, J.J. Abrams, Richard Branson, Bill and Melinda Gates, Malcolm Gladwell
More than 20 million people have seen Adam's TED presentations. He is the host of the popular TED podcast WorkLife. Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation are among his speaking and consulting clients. He has been named to Fortune's 40 Under 40, Oprah's Super Soul 100, and the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader lists, as well as receiving notable scientific accomplishment honors from the American Psychology Association and the National Science Foundation.
Adam is a member of the Department of Defense Innovation Board and writes on work and psychology for the New York Times. He graduated with a B.A. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver who graduated from the University of Michigan.
He and his wife Allison, as well as their two children and son, live in Philadelphia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593653142 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593653149 |
| Title | Hidden Potential |
| Author | Adam Grant |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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