Maximize Your Potential, Jocelyn K. Glei
Maximize Your Potential, Jocelyn K. Glei
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Maximize Your Potential
Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

Author: Jocelyn K. Glei, Scott Belsky

Series: 99U

Narrator: Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/12/2013

Synopsis

Success isn’t about being the best. It’s about always getting better.Can you step outside your comfort zone? Bounce back from failure? Build new skills? Tapping into your true potential is no idle endeavor. It demands creativity, dedication, and a whole lot of hustle.With wisdom from 21 leading creative minds, 99U’s Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.Maximize Your Potential features contributions from: Teresa Amabile, Sunny Bates, Michael Bungay Stanier, David Burkus, John Caddell, Ben Casnocha, Jack Cheng, Jonathan Fields, Joshua Foer, Jocelyn K. Glei, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Frans Johansson, Steffen Landauer, Mark McGuinness, Cal Newport, Robert Safian, Michael Schwalbe, Tony Schwartz, Tina Seelig, and Scott H. Young. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO Scott Belsky.

About Jocelyn K. Glei

99U is on a mission to provide the “missing curriculum” that every creative person and team needs to make ideas happen. 99U is part of Behance, a team devoted to empowering and connecting the creative world.In this ongoing book series, 99U shares pragmatic, action-oriented insights that are designed to help you become a better manager of your ideas, your time, and your creative career. Dozens of thought-leaders and creatives have contributed to the series, including Seth Godin, Gretchen Rubin, Stefan Sagmeister, Tony Schwartz, Steven Pressfield, Scott Belsky, Leo Babauta, Tina Seelig, Joshua Foer, Teresa Amabile, Frans Johansson, and many more.The series is edited by Jocelyn K. Glei, Director and Editor-in-Chief of 99U. Jocelyn oversees the 99u.com website—which has won two Webby Awards for “Best Cultural Blog”—and leads the curation and execution of the popular 99U Conference. Prior to joining 99U, Jocelyn was the global managing editor at the online media company Flavorpill. She is passionate about creating content-driven products that people love.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 04, 2016

Maximize Your Potential is a shallow collection of short essays written by some experts and mostly psuedo-experts citing case studies and unsourced "studies show" to make a case for its many obvious claims. The book is dedicated to "those who strive". I'd argue those people, with whom I identify, ar......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on July 09, 2016

Overall, this 99U book is a good read. It is what I like to call a "cocktail" of modern career advice. If you aren't following a lot of the Tim Ferriss' of the personal development era, then these collections of essays will be very rewarding. While each essay holds up well, if you are familiar with......more

Goodreads review by Abeer on February 08, 2025

I have read the other title by the 99U group, Manage your Day to Day, and I like both books. They are written in a way that motivates you and pumps you up to finish your undone tasks.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 09, 2015

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.......more

Goodreads review by january on January 24, 2020

At first I was a bit disappointed because the first part sounds somewhat darwinistic. Adapt. Survive. Come out on top. Uhm ok. But the second and third part really made up for that. There were some very interesting points about learning, how journaling can help with your progress and about the socia......more

Quotes

“Maximize Your Potential is an authentic, powerful guide to making the most of your innate talents. When ‘follow your passion’ just doesn’t cut it, this book gets to the heart of how to make your long-term career goals a reality.” —Tina Roth Eisenberg, SwissMiss.com“A no-nonsense, experience-tested, life-approved cookbook for creative intelligence, exploring everything from harnessing the power of habit to cultivating meaningful relationships that enrich your work to overcoming the fear of failure.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings“This isn’t for everyone—certainly not those who choose feeling helpless over trying to make something work. But if you’re looking to understand creativity through science and psychology with well-documented examples from ancient and modern history, Maximize Your Potential could be your literary jam.” —Kiran Umapathy, Holiday Matinee

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