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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
To encourage trial and error, set a goal for the minimum number of mistakes you want to make per day or per week. When you expect to stumble, you ruminate about it less—and improve more.
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
Ask for advice, not feedback. Feedback is backward-looking—it leads people to criticize you or cheer for you. Advice is forward-looking—it leads people to coach you. You can get your critics and cheerleaders to act more like coaches by asking a simple question: “What’s one thing I can do better next time?”
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
When you’re struggling to appreciate your progress, consider how your past self would view your current achievements. If you knew five years ago what you’d accomplish now, how proud would you have been?
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
Before you release something into the world, assess whether it represents you well. If this was the only work people saw of yours, would you be proud of it?
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
You don’t need a map to start on a new route—you just need a compass to gauge whether you’re heading in the right direction.
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
impostor syndrome is a paradox: Others believe in you You don’t believe in yourself Yet you believe yourself instead of them If you doubt yourself, shouldn’t you also doubt your low opinion of yourself?
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
Success is more than reaching our goals—it’s living our values. There’s no higher value than aspiring to be better tomorrow than we are today.
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
The best way to learn something is to teach it. You understand it better after you explain it—and you remember it better after you take the time to recall it.
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
Too many people spend their lives being custodians of the past instead of stewards of the future. We worry about making our parents proud when we should be focused on making our children proud.
from Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago