The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be

by Marc A. Pitman

You’re a high-performing leader. It’s time to shed the doubt.

You’ve hit milestone after milestone in your career. You’ve achieved stellar highs. People look to you for direction as a model of success. So where is all this doubt and insecurity about how to lead coming from? And is it even possible to shake these feelings of uncertainty?

In The Surprising Gift of Doubt , sought-after leadership executive coach Marc A. Pitman not only shows you how to conquer your imposter syndrome, but actually harness thse uncomfortable feelings to develop a rare level of leadership mastery. In fact, that inner doubt you’re wrestling with is a signal that you are on the verge of greatness.

Through the same assessments, exercises and self-management tools Pitman uses to help his executive clients achieve their leadership dreams, you’ll learn

• Identify your inherent and learned abilities, and apply them most effectively
• Use stories to amplify your natural leadership strengths
• Set career and life goals that fuel your leadership objectives
• Develop a unique style of leading to heighten your performance and the engagement of your team

You will emerge from this leader’s journey of self-discovery more sure-footed, courageous, and self-assured. The challenges of leadership will remain, but you’ll be able to meet them with an unshakeable inner confidence that matches the image others have had of you all along.

Genres: Nonfiction, Leadership

160 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2021

About the author

Marc is the founder of Concord Leadership Group and has served as its CEO for 20 years. Marc is executive director of The Nonprofit Academy, an advisory board member of the innovative fundraising platform Pennybridge in Orebro, Sweden, and a former advisory panel member of the Rogare Think Tank at Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom. He received his BA in history and Biblical studies from Gordon College, and he holds his masters in organizational leadership from Regent University. Marc is a Certified Franklin Covey Coach, a Certified Speaking Professional of the National Speakers Association, and president of the South Carolina chapter of the International Coaching Federation. He has appeared in or been recognized by media outlets and publications including NBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Success magazine, Real Simple, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is the author of Ask Without Fear!®, which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin. His latest book is The The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be . Marc speaks nationally and internationally on leadership, influence, storytelling, and fundraising. He is married to his best friend and is the father of three amazing kids, who, if he’s belting ’80s tunes, will deny they know him.

Reviews

[Bookreadersclub · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you feel being an edge less competent than others? Do you feel your intelligence, achievements and professionalism lags quality and that others are better?

Usually someone who faces such essential doubts, suffers Imposter Syndrome. And trust me when I say, it NEEDS to be addressed!

Marc A. Pitman, has helped many struggling people, deal and overcome disparities of life. Following the same, he coined the book 'In Surprising Gift of Doubt'. Herein, he motivates, coaches and guides the readers to take charge of their potential and lead with increased effectiveness and efficiency.

Do you feel doubtful that when people are looking up to you, you are actually not suited for the work?

Well, the author says otherwise. He asks his readers to compel this dubious scenario, become a strength, rendering away the weaknesses. He uses simple self-management tools like setting goals and organizing them, paying attention to inner nudge or intuition, accepting individuality and realizing the gift of life, etc. His only objective being, helping readers to adapt to a positive, constructive transformation of themselves, for a better self-reflection.

He uses simple language and calm tone to enable readers accept, evolve and apply the said instructions. Through the reading phase, one is assured to explore the inner self and journey to self-discovery. Though the author makes it clear, that the challenges and hurdles in life would continue to exist, however, after reading the book, you are assured of confidence and affirmation to tackle and face those challenges.

Using an empathetic undertone, the author describes incidents of people facing much severe anxiety and yet, overcoming it to become a brighter version of self. These not just help motivate, but also give an idol to those in search, to look up to.

Overall, it is a very different read compared to other business or self-help books, yet, with its strong adamance to change the reader's perspective to life, it sure is a must pick.

[Impact Reading]

"Doubt". What do you think about when you hear this word? Oxford dictionary defined it as "a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction." Well now you may be asking, how can a feeling of doubt be beneficial to us? How can we put it in good use if the feeling of doubt itself is a negative emotion in itself? But in this book, Marc Pitman aims to break down that notion and show how we can use uncertainty to help us become a better leader, wherever and whenever you may lead.

Marc shares that our leadership journey includes four different stages or quadrants of a developmental process that you need to go through. First into copy what you see others are going. Secondly, seek out experts in your field. On the third stage, doubt will help you to focus inwards, into yourself, which helps you build the confidence that will help you get to the 4th stage which is becoming the best leader that you can be.

Are you still intrigued with the "doubt" aspect of this book? I think that one word in the title is what drawn me in to read it in the first place because it so contradicts my beliefs in which there is no way that doubt could be a good thing. I've always been taught to avoid doubt in order to succeed. But boy, was I wrong. Marc has proven me wrong in this book, because doubt when utilised correctly, can indeed assist yourself into becoming a better leader and a better person.

A definite must-read for all future successful leaders out there!

[_sassy_39 · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The Surprising Gift of Doubt" is a self-help book written by the author Marc A Pitman. This book will help the readers to shed their doubt so they can become the exceptional leader they are meant to be. Author has talked about listening and trusting our inner nudges. Leadership involves four stages of development and most people make only to the first two stages.

Self-doubt is a part of the leadership journey. Leaders who acknowledge their self-doubt have the courage to go beyond Quadrant 2. Marc has also talked about three parts that make up the hardwiring triad of behavior, abilities, and motivation. "Realizing the benefits of your ability" chapter is really helpful.

In our path of leadership we are not alone. Author who is a leadership coach has guided the readers well in this book. I have mentioned few important points from this book in my journal for quick reference. This book has inspired me to walk on a journey from doubt to confidence. It is an engaging and thought provoking read. If you are looking to become a confident leader then go ahead with this book.

[Roy Chaaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leadership is a process, not an end goal. In addition to bringing individuals through this process, you can use it to help define the unique role your organization has in the world.
Either new to leadership or an experienced leader, this book will help you discover the leader inside of you by being yourself. If you are new to leadership, this book will set you on the right track. If you are an experienced leader, as in many examples in the book, this book is a manual to solve leadership challenges you might be experiencing. The leader’s journey is composed of four quadrants: the first one is where you observe, see other leaders that you try to emulate and learn from. The second quadrant is experiment, where you start trying new things to improve your leadership skills. The third is where you start analyzing what you have learned and watched people doing until you reach the fourth quadrant, which is a stage of focus, you gain confidence in your style of leading.
This book is full of resources to help you with your journey towards being an authentic leader. Also being a relatively small book, you will get more time to discover the leader inside of you.
Highly recommended!

[ReadersColony · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Surprising gift of doubt shows how uncertainty is an opportunity to uncover your unique strengths and talents with simple effective from where you bring your full self work.

Rather than running from doubt you will see it as a key to your own strength and point of view as a leader.

The process in this book will help you from feeling broken to become a wonderful leader you are for yourself and organisation.

Sometimes people flourish when they're push back or challenged. Pople who rise above others when you doubt their abilities.

Such People who thrive on uncertainty and challenges.
This book will help you become one.

In this book there are four quadrants to progress. Every quadrant offers a development potential for leaders.

Quadrant 1- You learn which readers to follow

Quadrant 2- Discover which learning style is best for you.

Quadrant 3- Learn to appreciate your uniqueness and define your personal leadership style.

Quadrant 4- You have gained mastery and can approach struggles of leadership with steady confidence.

Marc A. Pitman mark has been studying leadership from past 30 years and based on his research he has formulated framework that will help you lead more effectively.

1 - Behaviour
2 - Abilities
3 - Motivations


If you learn about your behaviour hardwiring, you can use it to communicate and work together more productively.

These personal hardwirings will help you progress as a leader and will shape up your relationship with people you work and interact.

As you grow on your leadership qualities you'll naturally influence people around you the self management tools in this book will help you achieve your drinks readers will gain confidence in their ability by obliterate their doubts and being self-assured.

This book is one of the few books on leadership that actually gives you actual methods and framework to progress as a productive and efficient leader.

Must read !

[Matt Hutson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Surprising Gift of Doubt by Marc A. Pitman was one of the easier and more insightful leadership books I’ve read recently. The tips in this book have helped me to understand leadership positions better even though I’m not specifically in one myself. I think it’ll be the same for you when you read this book.

There are four quadrants Marc explains in his book. One of the quadrants helps you with tips about looking inwards which helps you overcome your doubts about your abilities to lead. Another helps you to look at both the external and internal factors of leadership. The fact that Marc has also included graphics, one about the DISC system which classifies four types of people, tells me that this book is not messing around. It’s based on real-life and well-researched facts about who we are as people and how we can lead the best way possible.

Should you get The Surprising Gift of Doubt?
I’d say that if you are a leader of any sort, even if it is just a community and not a business, then it’s well worth your time and money to invest in Marc’s book.

You’ll still be able to find useful scientifically proven strategies to better communicate with people around you. No matter who you are.

So if you want a leadership book that actually touches not just on the author’s experiences, but scientific facts about how people interact with each other, The Surprising Gift of Doubt has a lot to offer.

[Kay Oh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nearly half (49%) of millennials struggle with imposter syndrome.

What I particularly enjoyed about this book is how the author provides a guide and tools for the reader to to use to overcome the self-doubt that fuels imposter syndrome.

Overall a quick read, the writing is clear and concise, not overly complicated.

[Aaron Mikulsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is reaffirming to me but includes nothing new; much insight is re-packaged in this book. Pitman challenges us to listen to the Inner Nudge–when most plans or formulas force you to fit into their molds, imposing their structures on you. They fail to build upon who you are, so they fail when your enthusiasm for them wanes or when the fear that you will not succeed diminishes. The secret to growing as a leader is that you have to do some inner work, none of which can be done for you. He divides the leader’s journey into four stages, or quadrants. They are Observe, Experiment, Focus, and Analyze.

You begin in Quadrant 1, where you are full of confidence because you have been promoted to a level of leadership. This is where you ‘observe’ leaders you wish to emulate.
In Quadrant 2, you begin to experiment. When your confidence falls, you find yourself worrying that something about you must be broken. So, you look for ways to fix yourself. With all the available books, blogs, webinars, podcasts, seminars, and courses, you think surely one of those will fix you. But having read the book or taken the course, you notice that it doesn’t quite work the way the reviewers said it would. When you realize that other people’s systems give you only one perspective on leadership but not the complete perspective.
In Quadrant 3, tentatively at first but with increasing awareness, you begin to ‘analyze’ what you have learned from watching people and studying systems. You get in touch with your strengths and your limitations, with your values, and with your own goals. You stop assuming that you are irreparably broken if systems don’t work for you.
That growing confidence leads you to Quadrant 4, a stage of ‘focus’ and quiet confidence. Here, you have learned how to listen to both external suggestions and internal cues. And you are leading in a way that comes from within. You are humbly confident in your ability and free to lead with grace and flexibility as well as bring others along the path of the four quadrants.

Pitman talks about “accepting your gifts” - Rather than placing limits on you, understanding your hardwiring helps you discover your unique way of interacting with and making sense of the world. Using the DISC model, you can determine whether you’re Active/Task Centered, Active/People Centered, Reserved/People Centered, or Reserved/Task Centered. This doesn’t restrict you to only acting within your ‘model,’ but can help you understand a bit more about your innate abilities and patterns. But, as helpful as it is, behavior-based assessment just scratches the surface of hardwiring. Looking at the other types of hardwiring— abilities and motivations— will help you grow into the leader you’ve wanted to be. As a leader, digging beneath learned skills to uncover your hardwiring— the strengths that come easily to you— gives you a much clearer picture of your unique, natural abilities. These come to you easily, without stress. Learned skills are the ways you learn to compensate for a lack of natural abilities. One helpful result of learning the difference between your natural strengths and your learned skills is that you can transfer the skills, applying them to other areas.

How do you describe your motivation? This book discusses one helpful system is the Enneagram. The Enneagram suggests that human beings are motivated by one of nine stories, or ways of seeing the world. These nine approaches to life are presented as different personality types. According to the Enneagram, personality is developed when, early in childhood, we learn that the world is not entirely safe. So, we adopt personality, a habitual orientation to life that protects us and helps us relate to others. A deep dive into hardwiring, whether through Enneagram assessment or other methods, can be transformative in developing your own leadership style. Knowing how you do things, what things you do easily, and why you do them gives you more command of your choices and actions as well as a much richer understanding of how different people operate. But hardwiring is just one part of the journey you will take from the stuck uncertainty of Quadrant 2 to the rich expiration of Quadrant 3.

Finally, the book emphasizes organizing around your goals - MagnetGoals is a process that involves four steps to more effective goal-setting and goal-reaching.
Step 1: Brainstorm your Top 100 things you wish to accomplish over the next year.
Step 2: Write your History of the Future - This is a description of what life will be like after you’ve accomplished everything on your list. It can be as short as a paragraph or as long as a few pages. This step is designed to propel you toward the life you dream of achieving.
Step 3: Narrow the list to 3-5 MagnetGoals.
Step 4: Get yourself there - create your roadmap and execute.

[Amit Bharti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Theodore Roosevelt had rightly said- Name of the any person is best thing to listen in any language.

He had a great quality of leadership and remembering names of his colleagues to gardener was one the finest quality to being a great leader.

Here, in this book Pitman has so aptly applied the core values of leadership building principles.

Book serves a phenomenal psychological approach that helps in execution of a leadership trait as being a boss/CEO/owner of one's company.

He has made all these concepts so lucid that can help other learners to thrive in their specific niche.

Enneagram personality test is backbone of this book where we can learn lot about how to deal with people or as oneself. It helps in understanding the personality of your companion who is going to work for your company.

Do you know important it is to know the personality of people either they are active or reserved.

I have learnt lot about active person as extrovert who can reflect his thoughts quite in great range and how reserved person can get those same thought in deeper way.

Reading this book is quite is taking an NLP course on leadership though its totally author's great approach to make us understand the very fundamental development of leadership trait.

Organising goals of every day is quite great that can amplify leadership quality in most beneficial way to put up the things in the right order. This is also person-to-person formula.

The four quadrant formula for accessing the best as a leader.

Leadership is a journey that includes four stages of development viz;
👉 Quadrant 1- Involves copying what you see doing others
👉 Q 2- We seek out the experts.
👉 Q 3- To rebuild trust and confidence
👉 Q 4- Here one becomes a focused leader where one belongs to.

I would highly love to recommend this book to all the corporate sector workers and those entrepreneurs who want to run a successful business.

There is a fact about leadership and saying by Donald Miller in "A Million Miles in Thousand Years", the struggle is where the growth is.

[Sonali Sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

"𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤."


❓Do you talk to yourself?


📚𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝘁 by
•Genre- Non Fiction/Leadership


📌𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄-
🔻The book is a masterpiece when it comes to "leadership building" & strengthen you up while dealing with imposter syndrome, uncertainty & self doubts.
🔻It talks about the 4 Quadrants which in brief convey -
•Q1- Learn
•Q2- Discover
•Q3- Define & Accept
•Q4- Master
🔻 You will learn about BAM framework (Behaviour, Ability, Motivation) the author has shared from his 39 years experience in leadership. Behavioral handwriting, management, influence & other tools are also gifted in the book.
🔻 Overall, an ultimate pack for the journey to discover yourself more


📌𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸-
🔻What I loved about the book that it was based on practical startegies & process, once implemented will definitely lead to changing results be it "fake it till you make it" one or discovering your call of "self doubt" & what is it urging to say
🔻This book totally changed my perspective upon inner doubts & made me 'educated' I would say; upon how to actually work with them, because yes! They can be a huge surprising gift & and you won't come to know unless you are aware about it.
🔻A professional set up that will also enhance your personal life regarding management, leadership & your well being to the whole.


📌𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻- The books seems like talking to you as a person; being with you throughout the journey of transformations & overcoming your downcomes, imposter syndrome; moreover finding you just with 4 quadrants. 😮 Amazing? A must have book for anytime when you feel low, this will just make you re-discover yourself.


📌𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀- 5/5


📌𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱?
If you are looking forward to work upon yourself & in search of ways how you can "deal actually" with your doubts. Pick this up & you will know how when listened to self doubts, it can do wonders.

[The Royal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doubt.... Quite familiar word to almost everyone. We treat it like a negative version of ourselves. We let it dominate our mind at some aspects of life. Even sometimes it puts a wall between our effort. Isn't that true?

But here Author Marc A. Pitman simplifies the term to how it can help us to reveal the leadership qualities within us. How it can fuel up our confidence. How that word will help out building the strength within us.
Diamond is created in high temperature and pressure and later it has to face many torture to get its name as DIAMOND.So happens in our life.We have to face some set backs and doubts that makes us a better us in later life.
Dividing the book into four quadrants one can touch every part of his self-building.

Quadrant 1:- you learn which leaders to follow
Quadrant 2 :- Discover which learning style suits your attitude
Quadrant 3 :- Appreciating own uniqueness
Quadrant 4 :- Step to get the title of leadership without losing self confidence

Being a leadership giant for almost 30 years his experience reflects in the book. The language in the book is kept simple and effective that it creates the impression in anyone. Focusing on self development author shares how it can help to a big difference in leadership.

Starting my reading career as a self help reader this book stands after Attitude is Everything by Jeff Keller. This book never let me feel distracted while reading.It all time created a soft invisible bonding with my mind. This book is not only focuses on leadership building it is an awesome read for them who wants to see their better self within them.

[Nidhi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you know what is imposter syndrome?

Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. In simple language, it is the overwhelming feeling that you don't deserve your success.

So the 2nd question is have you ever felt that?

If yes then 'In Surprising Gift Of Doubt' by 'Marc A. Pitman' can help you to overcome imposter syndrome. Mr. Pitman is a motivational speaker and a couch of students, adults, leaders to lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. When people are looking up to you but in some places, you have doubts that you are not suited for the work. But the author says this doubt is not your weakness it's your strength.

Pitman writes about several self-management tools like:

• listening to the inner nudge
• taking the leadership journey that can be divided into four stages (quadrants)
• accepting your gifts and realizing the benefits of that
• use those stories which enhance your strength
• set your goal and organized them etc.

It is a self-important book which can calm and organize your thoughts, you can write the notes from this book which can help you because it sure did help me. The language is not difficult and the author explains it all very well. I prefer this book to all the leaders and wannabe a leader.

[momma_doc_reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

“You second-guess yourself...you stuff that doubt down, trying to project confidence. And trying to ignore the stress that doubt brings – the feeling that maybe you’re not cut out for this leadership position. Maybe the organization be better off without you. You wonder if you should get out now before people realize you’re not cut out for the job. Does this sound familiar? Here is a twist: that’s doubt you’re trying to suppress is a precious gift.”
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Thank you so much to the tagged publisher for putting this book into my hands! It was the “surprising gift” I didn’t know I needed. They don’t tell you in med school that much if your job as a doctor will be acting as a leader - on your unit, in your clinic, in the operating room. Imposter syndrome is real, and it’s something I’ve definitely struggled with. Recent research aligns with what @marcpitman details in his book - that doubt you are feeling makes you better!
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I loved his 4 quadrant approach to the stages of leadership, which breaks his concepts down into easily digestible concepts. I also really got a lot out of his real-life client stories and how they were able to tackle their hurdles to achieve their leadership goals.
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This book was a quick and insightful read that is one I will be looking back to again and again for advice!

[Half Papyrus · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be

by Marc A. Pitman 

The book justifies its title in a subtle and understood way. The implication isn’t very stark, but it somehow manages to convey the integral theme of the book quite aptly.

The book can be called as a reflection of the dreariness of human doubts and the crudeness of his uncertainty and expectations. Pitman has written a book that puts up ‘life’ in a very humane and sympathetic way that preaches to instill the values of faith and belief. Simplistic and straightforward, this book should be a great read.

This book makes us see new perspectives to how things can be handled by keeping people at the forefront, how leadership can be wonderfully maintained by embracing thoughtful emotions. It lays out the blueprints for better outcomes, and doesn’t become one of those boring, repetitive guidance textbooks.

What makes this particular book special is how oriented to people it is, how it is largely based upon real-life experiences of author who are far from ideal. By reading this book, it can be felt how leadership is incubated within a clear understanding of people’s minds and their emotions. Vividly visual, very pointedly communicated and wanting to bring a change in how people view doubts, it could be a winner of a book.

[Nilesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

📚The Surprising Gift Of Doubt Review

It's an amazing book written by Marc. A. Pitman and it's has about 129 pages.

The surprising gift of doubt is all about making oneself better in various aspects. Author has provided real practical advice which you can implement into your day to day life which will help you in getting better everyday.

I really love the concept and the way author has narrated it and shared his ideas and experience in it. I have read many books on leadership and this one is different. Just read this book and run experiment into your real life through this books concepts.

the language of the book is also very easy so even if you're a beginner reader you can read it easily and the vocabulary of the book is also very good

The title of the book is also very good and author has narrated this story very nicely and kept you interesting throughout the book.

The cover of the book is also very amazing and look very cool. I really loved the way it looks.

it's an amazing read and I really loved it. I highly recommend this book to all the young readers.
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Rating 4.5/5
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#bookstarpr #thesurprisinggiftofdoubt #marcapitman

[Mathilde just.another.good.story · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Surprising Gift of Doubt by @marcpitman is an easy, quick and engaging read that will help you identify and better your leadership style, as well as other's.

"Leadership is a journey that includes four stages of development, and most people only make it as far as the first two."

➡ Stage 1: Copy what you see others doing
➡ Stage 2: Seek out the experts
➡ Stage 3: "Let your doubt remind you to turn your focus inward. You start listening to some of your hunches and gifts. This becomes trust in your own style"
➡ Stage 4: "become the focused leader—the whole person—you long to be. You learn from both external and internal sources. You masterfully use what others model and teach and what you know to be true about yourself to lead."

You too, no matter what you think, have what it takes to be a leader. This book will convince you that by being yourself you can find your way to your own leadership.

You'll find some great insight into time management and self-confidence, not only from the author's experience but also from research. And you'll know more about leadership and, in particular, who you are.

Ready to find out the kind of leader you are?

[Prashant Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you feel that you are meant to be successful but there is something that always pushes you back? You take two steps forward in the direction of success but then take three steps backwards. We really are not aware of the reason behind this. It’s different than a lot of other books in the market because it gets your hidden ‘leader’ out of you.

The author in this book help people to overcame the struggle they face in life. Consequently, he wrote this book. This book explores the reasons and the tips and tricks on how to overcame this. He mentioned a lot of self-management tools like how to set goals and achieve them, how to turn our weakness into our strength.

The book really connects with the readers to the core level and dives into the journey of self-exploration. The challenges are going to be there in life but this book will give you enough tools to overcame those obstacles in life with confidence. The author quoted a lot of examples to make it quite relatable to the readers. It’s a small book that comes handy and filled with abundance of knowledge. I highly recommend it. MUST BUY.

@who_prashant

[Arun Verma · Rating 5 out of 5]

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩.

Have you ever felt the imposter syndrome❓

We all have experienced self-doubt in challenging situations or when starting something new. We feel pressure and we don’t know how to handle it, it develops an uneasiness inside us.

The author will guide you through tools and strategies that this feelings of self-doubt, uncertainty or even broken, are a previous gift and how you can use them to strengthen your understanding of yourself, as a leader and as a whole person.

Through the same assessments, exercises and self-management tools you’ll learn to:

▪️Identify your inherent and learned abilities, and apply them most effectively.
▪️Use stories to amplify your natural leadership strengths.
▪️Set career and life goals that fuel your leadership objectives.
▪️Develop a unique style of leading to heighten your performance and the engagement of your team.

This book can be useful to everyone, as we all want to be successful in our professional life.

“𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓.”

[Udit · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book offers the road to individual who is struggling to build confidence. It works as catalyst between them. Marc shows some wonderful steps to implement.

In his second chapter, that is taking the leader journey, he has explained the content in the form of four quadrant. They are observe, focused, experiment and analyz. He has told that this are the stages of being a leader.

Then, moving forward he has mentioned that every quadrant hold potential. Like in first you learn which leader to follow, on second you discover learning style , in third appreciating uniqueness, in fourth you almost ready to cope with the different storms coming in your way through the strategies you have learned across so far in the other quadrants.

Thus, in this book he has tried to collect all the important aspect necessary for a individual. And also the one with which can start implementing. It will help one to identify the abilities and how use them against situations. It is indeed fuel to your leadership view of point.

[Anjali · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book comprise of the technique on which one can become leader. The quality which are needed or the direction are mentioned by writer. pitman has divided the book in ten part. He has shown one by one step that individual can implement. Through which one can outstand and make company achieve desired goals.

The chapters are Listening to the Inner Nudge , Taking the Leader’s Journey , Accepting Your Gifts, Realizing the Benefits of Your Ability, Knowing the Strengths of Your Motivation, Learning the Stories That Serve You, Organizing around Your Goals , Relating with Your Time, Energizing Your Confidence and Clarity , Honoring Your Integrity. This is how he has chosen the title and has clearify each and every aspect which are important.

You can be catalyst that of your own when you are struggling to build confidence. It explains how one can become the bridge as a catalyst for gap between the things.

This book aims the vital point of becoming a leader. It is a motivational book also for the pupil who wants to try hands on leadership thing.

[Sushil Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really loved this book.

The examples from the author's experience make the reading part interesting and made the concepts easy to understand. The comparison between an extrovert and a reversed person really helps in understanding yourself as a leader and your co-workers or employees. The tips and advice were easy to implement on a day-to-day basis. The book will definitely pinpoint the places your doubts coming from and will make you listen to your doubts and find a solution for them.

I really loved the book; the advices were on point such as listening to your inner nudge, accepting our gifts, using stories to enhance our strength. I really loved the topic of the 4 stages of leadership and many other topics as well.

You will learn
~To unleash your inner confidence
~To understand yourself as a leader
~Learn to use self-doubts positively
~ overcoming the lack of self-confidence while leading your organization
~Tools such as behavioral hardwiring, management influence, and listening to inner nudge

[Marmik · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book “The Surprising gift of Doubt” consist the idea on leadership. Like how can a individual can implement.

Initially, he has described about the people who get direction who are raised by parents who shows direction on each and every steps. Like once that guide is not available or the it comes totally on you then it become little difficult to cope up with situation.

He has share about how the idea popped in his mind about this book. He has told about incident and has tried to link the situation. He aims to lead a individual to progress in the field and also in the organization working. There are steps regarding this in the book.

The leadership talk are deliver by many person. Like it differs from person to person. So, this book covers the important aspect which are being filter out.

The language of the book is also very easy. One can easily go through it easily and this book can hook you till end.

[Hema · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written review of "The Surprising Gift Of Doubt" by Marc A. Pitman

Available On : Amazon
Pages : 129
Genre : Business Strategy & Management

The Surprising Gift Of Doubt is an amazing book which is about upgrading oneself and getting better everyday.

I really loved the concept and teaching which are shared by author. This one will definitely help you to develop proper leadership qualities. And it's also very well structured book which takes you to all the concept in a very nice way.

Title of the book is highlight for me it perfectly goes with the story. The cover of the book is pretty simple but looks cool.

The language of the book is simple and easy to read. The writing style of the author is also pretty simple and error free. The storytelling makes you dive into story and you won't want to come out of it.

I love reading this book It really takes you on the journey of the author's life and i would highly recommend this book to all the readers.
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[Unleash The Knowledge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ever suffer from crippling doubt?

Yes? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone.

Even the highest performing leaders, athletes, and professionals suffer from the intangible inhibitor of doubt.

Although we can’t steer clear of it, we can absolutely shed it from our daily life.

Leadership executive expert, Marc A. Pitman (@marcpitman) and his new book: The Surprising Gift of Doubt is here to guide you on how using uncertainty can push you to become the exceptional leader you are meant to be!

Not only will Marc show you how to conquer your imposter syndrome, but he will show you how to harness these uncomfortable feelings to develop a rare level of leadership mastery.

Marketing Expert and bestselling author, Seth Godin shared, “Marc Pitman will help you realize that leadership is a choice, it’s a skill, and it’s open to each of us.”

Learn to see the value in Doubt today by grabbing a copy of Marc’s book. - @unleashtheknowledge

[Shiromani Kant · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short and engaging read filled with stories and applicable learnings.
The book focuses on 4 Stages or Quadrant of leadership:
1. OBSERVE - at this stage you 'observe' other leaders to emulate and you try to lead the same way as you have been observing.
2. EXPERIMENT - After emulating for a while, you notice the reactions aren't as you expected by the people. So you move to stage 2, which is 'experiment'.
3. ANALYSE - At this stage, you 'analyze' your learnings from the experiment stage.
4. FOCUSED - All the analyzing and experimentation give you confidence and lead you to quadrant 4.

So the book is all about making an individual, particularly a leader, better in all aspects. The advices are practical and can be applied in an everyday life as well. All of that being said, the cover also looks awesome. 😁

[Jenni · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that I have needed for a while. Doubt is a central part of our journey and it can often cause people to "play it safe", not to take risks or be bold. Going all in leading people takes time, effort discomfort and risk. Marc Pitman takes us through four quadrants of leadership to get in touch with our inner strengths, limitations, our values and our own goals and harness our doubts rather than let doubt lead the way.

The book is a great short book that looks at improving three areas, hardwiring, identity and goals. It has lots of practical steps and some examples so you can see how other people have mastered stress and now lead with grace, flexibility and confidence.

This is a must read for anyone that has doubts about their potential, taking the next steps or being bold! Check it out @booksnatcher1

[Kashvi Parekh · Rating 5 out of 5]

In "The Surprising Gift of Doubt", @marcpitman reveals how you can not only conquer imposter syndrome (yes, even the biggest leaders often feel like imposters 👀) but also transform these negative feelings into a personal and unique leadership style for your organisation.

📚 While reading this book, I took prolific notes to discover the following:

1. what are my truest abilities?✨
2. how can I use storytelling to amplify them? 🗣️
3. what's my end goal? 🎯
4. how will my leadership style set me apart? 💯

Although I'm still figuring these out, I feel MUCH closer to answering them after reading this book 🙌🏽

Good leadership is a skill that can empower us and also enhance the performance of a team. In this book, Pitman teaches us how we can tap into our potential and be the leader that our team deserves ❤️

[Intoxicating Pages · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of leaders like to talk endlessly about change. Institutional change, culture change, changing paradigms, radical change and “being changemakers.” Pitman, in Surprising Gift of Doubt, points out that most of these leaders talking about change are just…talk. There’s little actual change because these leaders never take time to engage in true self-examination, and because they can’t take a deeper look at themselves, they can’t really look at their organizations. When faced with challenges, these companies fail to adapt and overcome because they never let doubt push them into the kind of organizational introspection needed to create and embrace real changes. This book encourages leaders to do the hard work. Go through the test on pg 93. Happy with the answers? No? Then use that as a jumping off point.

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read. Extremely helpful if you are in a leadership role and gotten to a point of a lot of doubt. Pitman explains that your doubt is the key to your next level. He walks you through a process of self development exploration to help you manage it. At first I thought I’ve seen these techniques before, however I also realized he provides a different approach based on his many years of leadership and leadership executive coaching. He can provide practical perspective on how to rethink about our patterns and make adjustments. He also provides instruction to help us “get to know” ourselves better. I found this book very helpful and I love neuroscience and psychology...he incorporates what he’s learned in those areas in the book.

[Harshi · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book, the writer talks about the leadership. He has divided the book in ten chapters and has explain very keenly everything.

Though, there are different ideas about leadership, author has precisely picked tools. Pitman has highlighted the key elements that one requires to make personal growth as well as individual or particular company.

He has broken the steps of achieving in quadrants. he has focused on the on personal perspective of individual like how it can play a important role in success.

One of the chapter is about, “knowing your strengths of your motivation”. In which he has mentioned about The Enneagram Symbol. And furtherly he has explained well.

So, this is worth reading atleast once. I usually don’t go for non fiction book but yeah this is worth reading.