The potential principle: a proven system for closing the gap between how good you are and how good you could be

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"Bestselling author Mark Sanborn (The Fred Factor) shows readers how they can get better by discovering and pursuing their true potential. We all know how good we are, but none of us knows how good we could be. No matter what we've achieved so far, one thing is certain: we can still get better. In The Potential Principle, Mark Sanborn teaches readers how to improve by providing practical steps and revealing where to focus efforts. Getting better results from consistently using a small set of easily remembered tools, ones that prevent complacency, create improvement, and break through barriers. By identifying the four key areas in which improvement is possible--thinking, performing, learning, and reflecting--and applying the four tools of improvement in those areas--disrupt, refocus, engage, and expand--Sanborn reveals the secret for achieving breakthrough improvement in any area of life"--;Why you should improve. The Potential Principle ; Why get better? -- The path to improvement. The Potential Matrix ; Escalating performance: if you don't think you can keep getting better, you don't know jack ; Leveraged learning: how to go from waiting tables to NASA ; Deeper thinking: what you can learn from a famous sculpture ; Insightful introspection: how to enter the room with no door and accurate mirrors -- The means of improvement. Disrupt yourself: if you don't, something or somebody else will ; (re)Focus: the antidote to perpetual distraction ; Engage others: the keys to uncommon improvement ; Increasing capacity: the secret of the partially filled glass ; What matters: how a speech about hunting knife safety changed my life -- Appendix 1: Sixteen combinations of matrix and breakthrough improvement ; Appendix 2: The eight questions for making your best better.