One day, a young woman named Michele Hansen spotted a job opening that piqued her interest. She wasn’t qualified—the posting was for a product manager at an investment company, and she had no experien...
Recently, a wise man encouraged me to aim higher. “What would you accomplish if you set out to 10x your productivity?” Challenge accepted. Goodbye, old pace of 4 books per decade. Hello, plan to rel.....
Reading the news is a good way to gain information about the world. Reading books is the best way to gain access to new worldviews. As I’ve read early copies of the nonfiction books launching over th....
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It brings me no joy to do this. Honestly, I’ve been avoiding it for years. But Capricorn, I can’t stay silent any longer. This is an intervention. You’re addicted to astrology. On a first date, you c....
When I learned that a colleague was struggling with grief after losing a parent, I offered to introduce her to an excellent bereavement therapist. Several months later, my colleague sent me a beautifu...
In hard times, urging people to be positive doesn’t boost their resilience. It denies their reality. People in pain don’t need good vibes only. They need a hand to stay steady through all the vibrati....
How do you give feedback to a CEO who’s twice your age? I was 25, a new professor called in as a last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to save a dying company. They had already fired three consultants, so why....
Recently, a colleague asked an auditorium of a thousand people how many wished they read more books. Nearly every hand in the room shot up. Over the past few months, I’ve been combing through advance....
For so many people, 2023 was the year of empathic distress—the pain of feeling others’ pain, while feeling helpless to do anything about it. To kick off 2024, I wrote about why empathy often drains an...
Hey parents: You don’t have to push your kids to choose a “practical” major. No one really knows which skills will be useful in the future anyway. The goal of liberal arts education is not to build c....
Too many education reforms are expensive and ineffective. In an NYT excerpt from Hidden Potential, I wrote about a practice that’s remarkably affordable and has rigorous evidence behind it. It’s loopi...
Impostor syndrome is not a clue that you're unqualified. It's a sign of hidden potential. When you think others are overestimating you, it's more likely that you're underestimating yourself. Others......
The launch of HIDDEN POTENTIAL is right around the corner. As a token of my gratitude to you as loyal Granted readers, I’m giving away 100 copies of the book. To enter, leave a question about the book...
Authenticity is not about expressing every opinion you hold. It's about ensuring that what you voice reflects what you value. If you prize respect and kindness, your comments shouldn't be filled with....
The idea books that light me up are filled with paradoxes. Some offer timely insights on timeless questions. Others glean universal wisdom from personal experiences. Many use anecdotes to illustrate a...
More than a century ago, G.K. Chesterton wrote about a small country that selected its rulers at random by lottery. It wasn’t a real country—Chesterton dreamed it up for a satirical novel, The Napoleo...
Weekends and holidays shouldn’t be time to recover. They should be time to rejoice. Burnout cultures exhaust us through the week and force us to recharge during our time off. Healthy cultures provide....
I’m thrilled to introduce my next book, Hidden Potential. It’s about how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. It debuts in October, and it’s now available for preorder here. My.....
We all have frenemies. They’re people who make you feel both good and bad, and they exist in every walk of life. You might have mixed feelings about a relative, a neighbor, a colleague, or a mentor......
A good book helps you think differently. A great book inspires you to act differently. My favorite new releases for May and June are geared toward finding motivation in unexpected places, designing mo...
Success is not about winning a competition. It’s about making a contribution. That was the thesis of my first book, Give and Take, which came out 10 years ago today. It was about the surprising conse....