#1 New York Times bestseller This 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 champion The #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 distances we ourselves can travel. 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.
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.
