Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

《逆思維》作者2023重磅新書
我們該如何提升自己，到達超乎預期的高度!?


「這本精彩的書將打破你對於進步和成功的認知。如果能回到過去，我會把它送給年輕的自己。它會幫助我找到一條更快樂的進步之路。”
——小威廉斯，23屆大滿貫單打網球冠軍



當今人們對於「天賦」相當執著：天生運動員、音樂神童、天才學生...。
大家不斷追捧那些生來即贏在起跑點的優勢。
但其實，這樣的趨勢很可能無形之中讓人們忽略一件非常重要的事實：

凡人其實也有邁向頂尖卓越的潛力和可能。


我們嚴重低估後天學習能達到的境界；對於自己可以變得多麼優秀一無所知。
而作者相信：其實靠著不斷的自我改善和提升，我們真的能持續不斷的成長！
即便出生時沒有好運氣，但那絕對不是唯一一條邁向頂尖的道路。


《Hidden Potential》(暫譯：隱性的潛力)旨在為讀者們指引方向：如何提高校正對自己的期望，以及如何達到超越預期的成果。
作者亞當．格蘭特融合研究證據、歸納出絕佳洞見，透過具渲染力的敘事方式，將理論付諸實現、將興趣鞏固為修煉，幫助人們壯大成長對自己的期待。

作者強調：進步並非仰賴自己有「多努力」(how hard you work)，而是重在「如何進步」(how well you learn)。
他深信成長絕不是來自擁有天賦的多寡，而是來自人們所具備的人格。
其透過此書探討如何建立正確的性格和進步動機，以發揮真正潛力。
及如何協助潛力被低估的自己和他人，創造激發潛力的環境和機會。


許多同類型的相關書都著重在分析各領域天才如何養成成功的習慣；
但這本書更注重討論「一般人」成功的可能。
此外，也重新定義：一個人潛力的開發程度，並非以其達成成就的高低來判斷，應視此人為了達其成就、所致力提升的高度而定。

“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.”
—Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.

We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door.

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there.