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

Something experts in all fields tend to do when they’re practicing is to operate outside of their comfort zone and study themselves failing.

Taken together, Dunbar’s and Uzzi and Spiro’s findings imply that the most successful creative projects are generated by teams that include a healthy mix of pre-existing connections, shared experiences, and totally new perspectives. If you’re looking to enhance your creative potential, then being on a team helps. But it’s not enough to be on any ol

With focus and consistency you can change your habits. By changing your habits, you reprogram the behaviors that control most of your life and ultimately determine your success.

asking for help when you need it actually makes people think you are more capable, not less.

(one study suggests sixty-six days as a median time for habituation

it’s possible for nearly anyone to reach excellence in nearly anything, given sufficient persistence and expert feedback along the way.

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.

When I was training my memory, I kept meticulous spreadsheets to track my performance.

listening—really listening—to people around you, and delegating responsibility to them. Most of all, it means building trust: earning the trust of others, trusting them in return, and trusting that together you can build something bigger and more inspiring than any of you could achieve on your own.