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Can you step outside your comfort zone? Bounce back from failure? Build new skills? Tapping into your true potential is no idle endeavor. It demands creativity, dedication, and a whole lot of hustle.

With wisdom from 21 leading creative minds, 99U’s Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.

Maximize Your Potential features contributions from: Teresa Amabile, Sunny Bates, Michael Bungay Stanier, David Burkus, John Caddell, Ben Casnocha, Jack Cheng, Jonathan Fields, Joshua Foer, Jocelyn K. Glei, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Frans Johansson, Steffen Landauer, Mark McGuinness, Cal Newport, Robert Safian, Michael Schwalbe, Tony Schwartz, Tina Seelig, and Scott H. Young. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO Scott Belsky.

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“Maximize Your Potential is an authentic, powerful guide to making the most of your innate talents. When ‘follow your passion’ just doesn’t cut it, this book gets to the heart of how to make your long-term career goals a reality.” ―Tina Roth Eisenberg, SwissMiss.com

“A no-nonsense, experience-tested, life-approved cookbook for creative intelligence, exploring everything from harnessing the power of habit to cultivating meaningful relationships that enrich your work to overcoming the fear of failure.” ―Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“This isn’t for everyone―certainly not those who choose feeling helpless over trying to make something work. But if you’re looking to understand creativity through science and psychology with well-documented examples from ancient and modern history, Maximize Your Potential could be your literary jam.” ―Kiran Umapathy, Holiday Matinee

“Maximize Your Potential is full of wisdom for helping you take control of your career and navigate the waters yourself.” ―Shane Parrish, Farnam Street

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Publishing (September 24, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 260 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781477800898
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  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
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  1. Jocelyn K. Glei

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    Jocelyn K. Glei is a writer who’s obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. Her latest book, “Unsubscribe”, is a modern guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters. Her previous works include “Manage Your Day-to-Day”, “Maximize Your Potential”, and “Make Your Mark”, which offer pragmatic, actionable advice for creatives on managing their time, their careers, and their businesses. She was formerly the founding director of the 99U Conference and editor of 99u.com, which earned two Webby Awards for Best Cultural Blog and a rabid fan base of productivity nerds. She lives in upstate New York and online at www.jkg.co.

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    Scott Belsky is the author of the international bestselling book MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN and his latest book is titled THE MESSY MIDDLE. Scott has spent his career making the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. He founded Behance, the leading online platform for the creative industry to showcase and discover creative work, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. He is a Venture Partner with Benchmark, and is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Cheddar, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages. Scott also founded 99U, a publication and annual conference devoted to productivity in the creative world and serves on the Board of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Scott is currently serves as Adobe’s Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.

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    99U is on a mission to provide the "missing curriculum" that every creative person and team needs to make ideas happen. 99U is part of Behance, a team devoted to empowering and connecting the creative world.

    In this ongoing book series, 99U shares pragmatic, action-oriented insights that are designed to help you become a better manager of your ideas, your time, and your creative career. Dozens of thought-leaders and creatives have contributed to the series, including Seth Godin, Gretchen Rubin, Stefan Sagmeister, Tony Schwartz, Steven Pressfield, Scott Belsky, Leo Babauta, Tina Seelig, Joshua Foer, Teresa Amabile, Frans Johansson, and many more.

    Beyond the book series, 99U shares insights on how to make great ideas a reality through our Webby Award-winning website at 99u.com and our popular annual 99U Conference in New York City. The 99U moniker comes from the legendary quote by inventor Thomas Edison: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

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Tommy
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2013
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"The better you is your believable possible" and "the better you will never lead you astray", well said by Jack Cheng, a writer, designer and entrepreneur and directly quoted from the last section of "Maximize" called the 'final reflection'.

This book is a must read, period. The contributors to this anthology do a great job of giving advice and coaching, they have all walked the walk and now are quite clearly demonstrating 'talking the talk'.

I highlighted or tagged or noted 107 different entries during this short read. It is well set up, clearly articulated and very fun, I look forward to recruiting many if not all contributors on my radio talk show to share the love and knowledge in a contained podcasted version of their ideals.

I will also take those highlighted, tagged and noted sections and reread and use in my own pursuits, good coaching and great advice is priceless.

"The better you will never lead you astray. So follow the trail", again Jack Cheng in the close. Time to step up, time to become accountable, and time to lead. Follow even one of the contributors tips and you cannot go wrong.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed the book
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Good book. Short specific to the point.
Great tips and advice.
I especially love the last words to "The better you"
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5.0 out of 5 stars The surrogate adviser for creative types
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I'm in process with this series of books (3) but from the get go I felt like these books were aimed specifically at me. I've read some of the most popular motivational books but this series is tailored specifically to artist and that's what makes this information so poignant.
These are small handy almost pocket size books (which make it easy to carry around) and all of the suggestions are short, concise and to the point. If you're already developed good skill sets in a specific area then you can quickly move on. I keep these books laying around the house in various locations because when I want a huge hit to transform my life I merely need to read just 2-3 paragraphs of these extremely well synthesized thoughts and almost every time something will strike a much needed chord. From how to be more efficient with your time and staying less distracted to creating a game plan for marketing yourself these books are spot on target. I absolutely hit a grand slam when I found this collection of books online and they've become my best surrogate adviser.
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STEVE
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022
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I enjoyed this book. The format of short chapters on specific topics made it an easy read. It also had some thought provoking and inspirational passages.
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Paul Deveaux
3.0 out of 5 stars Solid collection of essays
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Decent book. This is a collection of essays on four major themes to maximize your potential. If you are at all following any online gurus on productivity, creativity, and the like, you will hear several familiar voices here. Lots of great insights but not necessarily a cohesive tome. There is not a through line or a thesis here that is easily apparent. This book is best read an essay at at time, leaving space for reflection and adjustment before moving on to the next. Not a bad book but easily not one of my favorites in this genre.
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Tom Peterson
5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to predict the future is to create it
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” Peter Drucker said. And that’s at the heart of Maximize Your Potential. It’s the second of a three-part series being developed by 99u.

This compact book comes from the folks who don’t want to help us get more ideas (we’ve got plenty), but do help us make our best ideas become reality. The volume focuses on creating opportunities, building expertise, cultivating relationships and taking risks. As in the first volume, if you’ve read any personal growth books at all, you’ll get compelling and condensed reminders of things you should already know. If you haven’t read the other books, start here. The writers also help us understand growth in new ways.

For example, I’ve recommended a great book called The Power of Habit. But if you don’t have time, a few of the chapters in this book cover the same territory. Here’s Tony Schwartz writing on Developing Mastery through Deliberate Practice. Schwartz says that ritual “is a highly precise behavior you do at a specific time so that it becomes automatic over time and no longer requires much conscious intention or energy.”

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"Will and discipline, it turns out, are highly overrated. We each have one reservoir we draw on, and it gets progressively depleted each time we use it to get something done…. A ritualized approach to practice helps conserve our precious and finite reserves of energy."

"…It was only after I began studying the science of high performance that I started building a new sort of practice ritual. I still sit down at my desk first thing in the morning when I’m working on books, but now I write for exactly ninety minutes at a time—not eighty-five and not ninety-five. Then I take a break. I may get something to eat, close my eyes and spend ten minutes breathing reply, or take a run, each activity in order to refuel and recover."

"When I’m finished renewing, I come back and work the same way for another ninety minutes…"

"The heart of achieving mastery, I’ve come to believe, is expanding the amplitude of the waves you make in your life. When you’re working, give it everything you’ve got, for relatively show periods of time. When you’re recovering, let go and truly refuel."
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Mimi Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read and lots of good tips
Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2021
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Love these books. Great read with lots of great advise and tips for learning and growing your Career.
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Stephen O'brien
5.0 out of 5 stars lots of good details
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2023
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Lots of good details in multiple areas.
Like the fact it focused of technology sector.
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Alok R.
5.0 out of 5 stars A life changing experience.
Reviewed in India on June 9, 2023
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The best thing about the book was that it contained diversified experiences of different people who have excelled in their respective fields. I got to know about so many things which will definitely help me in my self-improvement journey.
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Fabí
5.0 out of 5 stars Recomendo
Reviewed in Brazil on February 18, 2019
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Simplesmente adorei essa coleção!! Super-recomendo aos criativos e cumpre a proposta de entregar o currículo que falta nas faculdades.
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Karen S.
4.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro para emprendedores
Reviewed in Mexico on August 30, 2017
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Si quiere empezar un negocio nuevo este libro es un buen comienzo.
Tiene buenos consejos y es de fácil lectura.
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