The potential principle: a proven system for closing the gap between how good you are and how good you could be 9780718093167, 9780718093143, 0718093143
"Bestselling author Mark Sanborn (The Fred Factor) shows readers how they can get better by discovering and pursuin
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English Pages x, 166 pages ; 21 cm Year 2017
Table of contents :
Why you should improve. The Potential Principle
Why get better? --
The path to improvement. The Potential Matrix
Escalating performance: if you don't think you can keep getting better, you don't know jack
Leveraged learning: how to go from waiting tables to NASA
Deeper thinking: what you can learn from a famous sculpture
Insightful introspection: how to enter the room with no door and accurate mirrors --
The means of improvement. Disrupt yourself: if you don't, something or somebody else will
(re)Focus: the antidote to perpetual distraction
Engage others: the keys to uncommon improvement
Increasing capacity: the secret of the partially filled glass
What matters: how a speech about hunting knife safety changed my life --
Appendix 1: Sixteen combinations of matrix and breakthrough improvement
Appendix 2: The eight questions for making your best better.
Why you should improve. The Potential Principle
Why get better? --
The path to improvement. The Potential Matrix
Escalating performance: if you don't think you can keep getting better, you don't know jack
Leveraged learning: how to go from waiting tables to NASA
Deeper thinking: what you can learn from a famous sculpture
Insightful introspection: how to enter the room with no door and accurate mirrors --
The means of improvement. Disrupt yourself: if you don't, something or somebody else will
(re)Focus: the antidote to perpetual distraction
Engage others: the keys to uncommon improvement
Increasing capacity: the secret of the partially filled glass
What matters: how a speech about hunting knife safety changed my life --
Appendix 1: Sixteen combinations of matrix and breakthrough improvement
Appendix 2: The eight questions for making your best better.
