Maximize Your Potential Quotes

“The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“It’s hard to be your own coach, but not impossible. The key thing is to set up structures that provide you with objective feedback—and to not be so blind that you can’t take that feedback and use it.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“The world is random and unpredictable, which means that it is close to impossible to outline exactly what your next best move is. But you can explore it—by doing and trying. Just make sure you don’t go all in before you’ve figured out that it works.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“With focus and consistency you can change your habits. By changing your habits, you reprogram the behaviors that control most of your life and ultimately determine your success.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“The enemy of creation is not uncertainty, it’s inertia.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Studies consistently show that when we look back on our lives the most common regrets are not the risks we took, but the ones we didn’t. Of the many regrets people describe, regrets of inaction outnumber those of action by nearly two to one. Some of the most common include not pursuing more education, not being more assertive, and failing to seize the moment. When people reflect later in life, it is the things they did not do that generate the greatest despair.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“To build a career, the right question is not “What job am I passionate about doing?” but instead “What way of working and living will nurture my passion?”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Lucky people take advantage of chance occurrences that come their way. Instead of going through life on cruise control, they pay attention to what’s happening around them and, therefore, are able to extract greater value from each situation… Lucky people are also open to novel opportunities and willing to try things outside of their usual experiences.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Nothing truly innovative, nothing that has advanced art, business, design, or humanity, was ever created in the face of genuine certainty or perfect information. Because the only way to be certain before you begin is if the thing you seek to do has already been done. In which case, you’re no longer creating, you’re replicating. And that’s not why we’re here.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“This pattern is common in people who love what they do. Their satisfaction doesn’t come from the details of their work but instead from a set of important lifestyle traits they’ve gained in their career.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Finally, note that strong partnerships are often based on contrasting rather than coinciding strengths, so you’ll want to avoid the comfortable trap of seeking someone too similar to yourself. In Plato’s Republic, guards were taught by poets. Views contrary to your own are always helpful, as sometimes you will see truth in them and effect change, and, if not, you will be stress-testing and ultimately strengthening your own convictions.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“As the poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” While we may cherish the myth of the lonely creative genius, it is just that—a myth. In truth, no individual (or idea) can flourish in a vacuum. Relationships, camaraderie, and collaboration are the lifeblood of our personal well-being and our professional success.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Both the top two groups slept an average of 8.5 hours out of every 24—including a twenty- to thirty-minute nap in the midafternoon. The least skilled group still slept 7.8 hours a night. The average American, by contrast, sleeps an average of 6 to 6.5 hours a night. Sleep not only serves a restorative purpose but also allows the brain to more effectively consolidate and retain daytime learning. The top violinists recognized this intuitively, and slept accordingly.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Reaching for greatness without a genuine interest in the field is like running a marathon after fasting. Remarkable achievements are fueled by genuine interest.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Always be asking “What’s next?” If you’re not asking questions, you’re not going to find answers.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“In short, lucky people are open-minded, upbeat, proactive, and always willing to try something new. While it’s good to be directed in your career, you’ll want to stay open and alert to unexpected possibilities. And when they show up, act on them. You never know what the outcome might be.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“There’s this saying, “The moment you move to protecting the status quo instead of disrupting the status quo, you put yourself at risk.” That’s the challenge for businesses, and that’s the challenge for individuals: understanding the point at which you are protecting what you know and defending what you know, instead of looking at what else you can learn and how you can grow.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“In your career, good entrepreneurial risks include taking on side projects on nights and weekends, embarking on international travel, asking your boss for extra work, and applying for jobs that you don’t think you’re fully qualified for.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“don’t follow your passion, cultivate it.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“When you make choices that will affect your career, aim for the intersection of your genuine interests, skills, and opportunities.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“PLACE MANY BETS If it is difficult to predict just what exactly is going to be successful, it follows that you have to keep trying. The more times you try, the more likely that you will create successful designs, start-ups, or pieces of art.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“No man is an island.” While we may cherish the myth of the lonely creative genius, it is just that—a myth. In truth, no individual (or idea) can flourish in a vacuum. Relationships, camaraderie, and collaboration are the lifeblood of our personal well-being and our professional success.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“When we are working with intention, we toil away endlessly—often through the wee hours of the morning—on projects we care about deeply. Whether it’s building an intricate model of an ancient ship, writing a song, or mapping out an idea for your first business, you do it out of genuine interest and love.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“doing what you love is difficult but worthwhile.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Basic economics tells us that if you want something rare and valuable, you need to offer something rare and valuable in return—and in the working world, what you have to offer are your skills.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance pioneer, says, “All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed… finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. As civilization came, we suppressed it. We became ‘labor’ because they stamped us, ‘You are labor.’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Free Radicals want to take their careers into their own hands and put the world to work for them. Free Radicals are resilient, self-reliant, and extremely potent.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“If you want a new challenge at work or more responsibility, it’s on you to pitch your boss or your client on what needs to be done, why it’s a good idea, why you’re the best person to do it, and why everyone will benefit. Lead the way with your own creativity and initiative, and back it up with enthusiasm and a strong business case.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“we must become adept at testing out new technologies that can benefit us in our personal and professional lives.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career

“Whether it’s intelligence, creativity, self-control, charm, or athleticism—the science shows our abilities to be profoundly malleable. When it comes to mastering any skill, your experience, effort, and persistence matter a lot. Change really is always possible—there is no ability that can’t be developed with effort. So the next time you find yourself thinking, “But I’m just not good at this,” remember: you’re just not good at it yet.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career