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Childhoods of Exceptional People
As a result, we value demonstrated excellence—which leads us to adopt practices geared toward identifying and investing in students who show obvious signs of brilliance.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Our right-brain multitasking and problem-solving skills help us make good corporate decisions.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
James Clear • How Smart Do You Have to Be to Succeed?
seek constructive criticism.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
SELF-INSIGHT: WHO HAS ACCURATE VIEWS OF THEIR ASSETS AND LIMITATIONS?
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
the Big Five traits (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness)
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
Duckworth and her coauthors, to their credit, point out that by studying highly preselected groups, “we have necessarily limited the external validity of our investigation.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
developing Martin’s “opposable mind” isn’t easy. You have to give up exclusively identifying with your own, singular point of view. If you want to train this kind of creativity and problem solving, what the research shows is that the either/or logic of normal consciousness is simply the wrong tool for the job.