How the best of the best gets better and…
How the best of the best gets better and better written by Graham Jones: reinvent yourself. One top sales and marketing Director, I worked with told me that he would never have stayed at his current position if the CEO hadn’t given him, his relentless sometimes brutally honest critiques.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Mental Toughness by HBR
In the book
Your brain and body need that outside pressure the way a sailboat needs wind; with too little, you sit dead in the water. Sometimes the move is to reinvent yourself wholesale, the way the best performers refuse to coast on what already works. But all of it demands the most uncomfortable thing of all: to learn anything truly new, you must access your ignorance rather than your competence, and be willing to feel like a clumsy beginner again. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)
Also belongs to
- The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
- Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
- The Mind in the Cockpit
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