“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.
