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  • Hidden Potential

  • The Science of Achieving Greater Things
  • By: Adam Grant
  • Narrated by: Adam Grant
  • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (147 ratings)

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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess-it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

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©2023 Adam Grant (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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A great reminder of the hidden potential in all of us

I think it can be easy to forget that we all have the ability to improve greatly and achieve incredible things, if we keep going and are prepared to fail along the way. Adam Grant has a very engaging style of writing and I love that he included ‘live’ quotes from contributors, which helped bring some of the stories to life. Not your average audio book and definitely worth a read (or a listen).

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brilliant way to start the year

fantastic reminder if you'd manage to forget how much potential you have that is hidden. great read

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Third Adam Grant book read!

This is my third Adam Grant book and all I can say is that I adore his train of thought. His personality (if you’ve ever heard him on a podcast) is quite particular since he is a person who is ALWAYS questioning the status quo. Traditional way of thinking is something he ultimately rejects and that’s something I really appreciate in every single one of his books (specially “Think Again”, my ultimate favourite). I wish people on the corporate world could hear him because many of the things that he sets as examples of “what not to do” I see them everyday in my workplace *sheds a tear lol*. Anyway, if you are a leader, an entrepreneur, CEO, Manager, and part of the workforce, I really do suggest reading this book. I loved it.

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Insightful and well presented - worth the time

Interesting read will diffidently re-read/listen which is my rubber stamp that this is a book worth reading and reading for the insight it will continue to provide for me.

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Great book

Well worth listening to and a lot to think about both for personal and professional development, as well as as a parent

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Loved it!

Great examples. Really enjoyable listen that is hugely inspiring. I have recommended it to so many people already, as well as my children.

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Amazing book

Deep dive into identifying potential and how to bring it out of yourself and others

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A riveting listen!

The stories that put context to the ideas presented were compelling and I enjoyed listening to the narrator. I especially appreciated hearing the words come directly from mouths of those whom Adam referred to. It lent credence as well as added an extra dimension.

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Great read

Very Insightful and fun to read, full of real life stories. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Adam Grant didn’t disappoint

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Excellent!

Interesting and inspiring, message shared through stories of notable people, full of practical advice. Warmly recommend to everyone, regardless of developmental or life stage.

Loved the concepts - personality vs character, distraction as developmental scaffolding, asking for advice rather than feedback, burn out vs. bore out, recruiting for potential and much more…

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