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Big Potential阅读节录

  • 2022年 01月15日

书名：Big Potential: How transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness and Well-Being

作者：Shawn Achor

Big Potential

最近正在阅读Hamed赠与我的这本书。节录一些能反映作者中心思想的句子和我认为不错的句子。括号中为页码。

Been reading this book that Hamed gave me recently. Excerpt some sentences that reflect the author’s central idea and sentences that I think are good. Numbers in the bracket are page numbers.

Part I. THE BIG PROBLEM WITH SMALL POTENTIAL

Chap 1. The Power of Hidden Connections

  • The more you help people find their light, the brighter you both will shine. (4)

  • Achieving our highest potential is not about survival of the fittest; it is survival of the best fit. (7)

  • I saw this firsthand during my twelve years at Harvard as I watched students crash upon shoals of hyper-competition, then get stranded on the banks of self-doubt and stress. Realizing that they were no longer the only superstar, many panicked. (7)

  • Almost every attribute of your potential-from intelligence to creativity to leadership to personality and engagement-is interconnected with others. (9)

  • SMALL POTENTIAL is the limited success you can achieve alone.
    BIG POTENTIAL is the success you can achieve only in a Virtuous Cycle(will be discussed maybe) with others. (9)

Chap 2. Lifting the Invisible Ceiling of Potential

  • In fact, if you look at a hill while standing next to someone you consider to be a friend, the hill looks 10 to 20 percent less steep than if you were facing that hill alone. That is a stunning finding. Perception of your objective, physical world is transformed by including others in your pursuit of achievement. (14)

  • Indeed, their research found that a team on which each person was merely average in their individual abilities but possessed a collective intelligence would continually exhibit higher success rates than a team of individual geniuses. (19)

  • In other words, connecting with high-potential people dramatically increases your likelihood of high-potential outcomes. (22)

  • Big Potential is about gaining a competitive advantage not by limiting others’ success rates, but by raising them. (29)

  • A Virtuous Cycle is an upward spiral of potential whereby with each success, you garner more resources, which, in turn, allow you to achieve greater and greater successes. (31)

  • You can find powerful ways to create Virtuous Cycles of potential by planting these SEEDS(Surround, Expand, Enhance, Defend, Sustain) in your life… Together, these SEEDS themselves create a Virtuous Cycle, lifting the ceiling on your potential higher and higher. (32)

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