Manifesto
If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right
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The key question is not how long people have done a job. It’s how well they can learn to do a job.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Instead of trying to trip people up, we should give them the chance to put their best foot forward.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Success is more than reaching our goals—it’s living our values. There’s no higher value than aspiring to be better tomorrow than we are today.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
The best way to learn something is to teach it. You understand it better after you explain it—and you remember it better after you take the time to recall it.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
I believe it's easier to grow your business through relationships when your work is your passion. Talking about work doesn't become Sales, rather shared interest. And it works like a magnet, it connects you with like-minded people naturally.
Weak leaders silence voice and shoot the messenger. Strong leaders welcome voice and thank the messenger. Great leaders build systems to amplify voice and elevate the messenger.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
If you’re looking to create a timeless sense of purpose and to shape the overall mission of your life, then you should use principles. Establishing a set of principles creates a compass to which you can refer whenever something is in doubt or you need to take a stand or evaluate any particular opportunity, behavior, or situation.
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The “5 salaries” idea: jobs pay you financially, educationally, psychologically, socially, and in freedom.