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

“What problem am I solving? What do I want to create? What do I want to change?”

the best way to practice is in time-limited sprints, rather than for an unbounded number of hours.

It teaches us that we should begin by systematically developing rare and valuable skills.

upside of risk is that—no matter what the outcome—we act, we learn, and we grow. And when tomorrow comes, we’re better

How can we best realize the value that others can add to the development of our projects and ourselves?

employers “are all looking for the same kind of people—people who not only have the critical thinking skills to do the value-adding jobs that technology can’t but also people who can invent, adapt, and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.

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.

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

Ericsson subsequently posited that four and a half hours is the natural human limit for the highest level of focus on a single task in any given day.