Hidden Potential

The key question is not how long people have done a job. It’s how well they can learn to do a job.

The first section explores the specific character skills that catapult us to greater heights.

Gamification is often a gimmick—an attempt to add bells and whistles to a tedious task. The aim is to offer a dopamine rush that distracts from boredom or staves off exhaustion.

Your comfort grows as you practice your skills.

Expectations tend to rise with accomplishment. The better you’re performing, the more you demand of yourself and the less you notice incremental gains. Appreciating progress depends on remembering how your past self would see your current achievements.

pop-up workshops. For each project, I pull together a different mix of five to seven insiders and outsiders with complementary skills. The group bands, disbands, and morphs as relevant.

he would have to become a freak of nurture.

For every project that matters to me, I’ve had judging committees for over a decade now. They’re not permanent structures; they’re temporary scaffolding.

Reimagine interviews to set candidates up to succeed.