#1 New York Times BestsellerThis brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it
takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It
would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.” —Serena Williams 23-time Grand Slam
singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how
we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.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.
