{"id":1362,"date":"2025-11-10T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:53:24","slug":"book-review-hidden-potential-by-adam-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/garthnichols\/classroom\/book-review-hidden-potential-by-adam-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “Hidden Potential” by Adam Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hidden Potential<\/em> by Adam Grant<\/h1>\n

How Rethinking Growth Can Transform Our Classrooms, Our Teams, and Ourselves<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe true measure of potential is not how high you reach but how far you came to get there.\u201d<\/em>
\u2014 Adam Grant, Hidden Potential<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As an educator and school leader, I\u2019ve long been preoccupied with the question of how we identify, support, and unlock student potential. While our current systems reward what is already visible\u2014talent, hard work, performance, and poise\u2014how might we balance this with the recognition of the full range of growth that happens out of view. This is both for our students and those we lead.<\/p>\n

In Hidden Potential<\/em>, Adam Grant invites us to explore this very premise: that potential is not fixed, innate, or narrowly distributed<\/strong>. Instead, it is shaped by context, character, opportunity, and system design. Achievement is what happens when you polish your strengths, but success comes from building your character. This is a book about improving as an individual, as an educator and leader, and how, through intentional shifts, we can support the unlocking of potential beyond static measurements and into the dynamic, messy, beautiful business of human development.<\/p>\n

You Would Be Interested in This Book If\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n