Reaching Your Potential Is A Choice
There are five elements that help you on your journey to your full potential.
Character
Build character to reach your full potential. Character is your capacity to prioritize what you care about over your instincts – or how you think, feel, and behave – especially when you’re under pressure.
Mistakes Help
To build character, one of the most important habits you can adopt is to make mistakes.
Learn, rinse, repeat
Absorb, filter, and adapt while you work toward mastering your chosen skill. Doing this is a choice, one that’s completely distinct from your genes or even the opportunities you were born into.
Screw Perfection
Embrace imperfection. Research shows that perfectionists have no advantage when it comes to skills acquisition or mastery. In fact, they often perform worse than their peers. They also resist situations and tasks outside their comfort zone, which restricts their ability to broaden their skills and experience. Remember – making mistakes is essential for learning, which goes against a perfectionist’s instincts.
Joy vs. Outcomes
When it comes to mastering a difficult skill, the number of hours you put in matters less than how you spend that time. Harmonious passion is a term that psychologists use to describe a state in which practice is motivated by the joy of learning rather than an obsession with the outcome.
Play
Harmonious passion is deliberate play — the midpoint between consciously practicing a skill and free play. At this intersection, developing new skills becomes fun and satisfying. Deliberate play gives you the freedom to mix things up – or adapt – and generate energy, while maintaining a structure that supports learning.
Adapted from the Blinkist Adaptation of Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
- Build character
- Make mistakes
- Absorb, filter, and adapt
- Embrace imperfection
- Have fun
Character
Build character to reach your full potential. Character is your capacity to prioritize what you care about over your instincts – or how you think, feel, and behave – especially when you’re under pressure.
Mistakes Help
To build character, one of the most important habits you can adopt is to make mistakes.
Learn, rinse, repeat
Absorb, filter, and adapt while you work toward mastering your chosen skill. Doing this is a choice, one that’s completely distinct from your genes or even the opportunities you were born into.
Screw Perfection
Embrace imperfection. Research shows that perfectionists have no advantage when it comes to skills acquisition or mastery. In fact, they often perform worse than their peers. They also resist situations and tasks outside their comfort zone, which restricts their ability to broaden their skills and experience. Remember – making mistakes is essential for learning, which goes against a perfectionist’s instincts.
Joy vs. Outcomes
When it comes to mastering a difficult skill, the number of hours you put in matters less than how you spend that time. Harmonious passion is a term that psychologists use to describe a state in which practice is motivated by the joy of learning rather than an obsession with the outcome.
Play
Harmonious passion is deliberate play — the midpoint between consciously practicing a skill and free play. At this intersection, developing new skills becomes fun and satisfying. Deliberate play gives you the freedom to mix things up – or adapt – and generate energy, while maintaining a structure that supports learning.
Adapted from the Blinkist Adaptation of Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
posted by Peter at 4:26 PM
1 Comments:
Good information. I think it could be strengthened by making reference to a persons, physical, spiritual, and emotional conditioning.
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