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The High-Return Activity of Raising Others’ Aspirations
Raising the aspirations of other people is one of the most beneficial things you can do with your time. At critical moments, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something more important and ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relat
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous.”
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When you raise the aspirations of an individual, in essence you are bending upward the curve of that person’s achievement for the rest of his or her life. There is a powerful multiplier effect of compounding returns that can continue for many decades. Actually, the full net impact can be longer yet, if that individual in turn works to later raise t
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
To say it outright, even the most talented person in the world won’t do well here if they don’t have an interest in helping other people grow and succeed. The question you will be held most accountable for isn’t “how have you gotten better” it's “how did you make someone else better?” Better yet, how have you made the collective, the team, better?