Hidden Potential

Ultimately, the key indicator of potential isn’t the severity of adversity people encounter—it’s how they react to it.

this evidence reveals that it’s never too late to build them.

Account for degree of difficulty.

If personality is how you respond on a typical day, character is how you show up on a hard day.

Creating opportunities on a larger scale requires us to build better systems in our schools, teams, and organizations. Some

ambition is the outcome you want to attain. Aspiration is the person you hope to become.

Finland’s Council for Creative Education

done is better than perfect.

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. The responsibility of each generation is not to please our predecessors—it’s to improve conditions for our successors.