Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U Book 2)

exposure to risk. MISTAKES ARE INFORMATION Mine your “failures” for valuable data about what works and what doesn’t. As long as you learn from the process, it’s not a mistake. DIVE INTO UNCERTAINTY Don’t be afraid to live in the shade of big questions. Uncertainty and ambiguity are a necessary part of risk-taking and the creative process. ACCEPT YO

APPRECIATE YOUR ADAPTABILITY Be aware that when you fail, you will adapt to the new situation much more quickly than you expect. Setbacks often have a silver lining. TAKE ACTION TO AVOID REGRET Fear a failure to act more than you fear failure itself. Most people’s biggest regrets are the opportunities they did not act on, not those they did. DON’T

In an increasingly unpredictable world, you have to leverage the statistical advantage of randomness by placing many bets.

require all my students to write a failure résumé. That is, to craft a résumé that summarizes all their biggest screw-ups—personal, professional, and academic. For every failure, each student must describe what he or she learned from that experience.

After a decision has been made, we always have the ability to affect our situations to increase the probability of success. This is agency, or the ability to take actions that influence our destiny.

When people reflect later in life, it is the things they did not do that generate the greatest despair.

improve our situation in the future.

Failure gives us valuable feedback that we use to address our regrettable actions and

bias.