HIDDEN POTENTIAL

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