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We cannot think of a life where there is no competition. We have been raised with the belief that achievement is about the performance we achieve alone, and we have been assessing it by checking against each other. However, in reality, this is an incomplete tale. We can look for and obtain success by ourselves, however, we cannot fulfill our full potential in this way. To reach our full potential, we require to have people by our sides. Attaching with rather than competing against each other enables us to learn from experiences of each other, gather assets and forces, and back each other up in achieving the purposes. Consequently, we all can achieve greater things than we could do individually. This is called “Big Potential”, and this book review will explain the five hidden ways you should know to open it and enjoy the excellent advantages. Chapter 1 - Thinking achievement as a contest that other’s gain is equal to your loss, restricts the potential. The potential boosts when assisting and working together with others. “Highest-ranking student”, “winner”, and “top”. In our student life, professional life, even in sports, we are raised to work for the best. Being good is not satisfactory, we need to be the best among others. However, it means that there are lots of successes to pursue. In consequence, these make us ambitious and center ourselves on achievements individually. But thinking of achievement this way limits our potential. Although it may feel strange, to enhance what we can achieve and reach our full potential, we should quit rivalry with others. Rather than competing, we should give helping hands to people around us. By working individually and only trusting to our capabilities, abilities, and assets, we can be successful only to a certain extent. This is what the author says the “Small Potential”. However, if we assist others to become successful, we increase our base of assets. Obtaining a bigger base of assets would enable us to achieve better things than we could do on our own. What is called “Big Potential” is exactly this, and the work on the coupling act of fireflies gives us a sparkling sample of the excellence of this. According to the article on Science, if an alone male bug glows casually, the probability of getting a response from a female bug is only 3 percent. However, when males gather and glow cooperatively, the probability jumps to 82 percent! Similar to fireflies, if we cooperate, we can all gain from it. And there is more. It is not only once you benefit from obtaining the “Big Potential”. As we assist others more, they will develop more capabilities, abilities, and assets. We will be able to reach those assets and can benefit from them to achieve more and be more successful. The Big Potential gets bigger and bigger every time and simple and simpler to obtain since it is a continuous favorable loop, a “Virtuous Cycle”. How to develop the “Virtuous Cycle”? We should “plant” the “SEEDS”. Do not worry, we are not going out to the garden; SEEDS consists of the first letters of the five actions that will enable us to develop the Virtuous Cycle. These five actions we need to perform are: “Surround”, ”Expand”, “Enhance”, “Defend”, “Sustain”. In the next lines, we will talk about what these actions are. Chapter 2 - To fly high, we should encircle ourselves with favorable and various impacts. Did you experience jumping on a trampoline? If yes, you should be familiar with the “super bounce”. The super bounce occurs when multiple people bounce together. The influence of the total weight of the people bounces the jumpers too high that when alone, this height cannot be reached. Big Potential is similar to “super bounce” that enables you to attain the heights which you could not attain individually. The key to attaining it is having the correct people around you. With the energetic, sociable, inventive people around, you will see the good impact of it on your qualities. These people motivate you, help in harsh times, and assist you to perform your best. These are all multipliers of potential. This favorable effect of people on others causes some firms to quit remote offices. According to a new study, firms such as Google and IBM recognized the increase in pace, innovation, and collaboration in people while they are together with others. This is amazing, especially if we think of the fact that IBM is being the inventor of the remote office idea. Having favorable people around is not sufficient by itself, you should make sure that you have various people in your reach. When everybody around is the same as you in thoughts or abilities, you constrain your development, potential inventive opinions, and eventually, your potential. Diversity does not only stop with people in your reach - what they are working for is also important. As the author states, you should have three kinds of people around. Pillars, bridges, and extenders; to be strong, to find new chances, and to experience new things, respectively. To have different people around you, you need to speak with new people frequently. The basic word “Hello!” can amaze you with how it can open many doors to new links. After you form these links, this will be the spot where you develop mutual relationships. In other words, you will take to the extent and frequency that you give. You will feel more delighted and more connected with these mutual ties, as well as you will find the strength to achieve the “Big Potential”. Chapter 3 - See your ability to guide and develop great transformations, and spread them to other people. Think of a case where you have excellent solutions to make operations in the work better, and you would be thrilled to make them real. However, the novelty disappears fast and desperation comes to you. You start to think: I am not the head, how could I transform whatever everyone is used to? The belief that only authorized can transform things is a frequent belief that blocks your reach to the “Big Potential”. If a team wants to reach Big Potential, everybody should believe in their ability to guide, no matter what their place in the order is. You can achieve this with the second action for “Big Potential”: ”Expand”. You can cause transformation without a name or clout, the belief in your abilities and utilizing them are musts to do it. A singer in an orchestra is not the boss; however, by talking to the conductor, she may impact the yield of the whole. The utilization of the leadership capacity may influence people you are surrounded by because this develops the “Elevated Pitch”. This is a memo for people to lead and it is useful if you have the same goals as the receivers of this memo. For example, a sociable young person that does not want to go to university might be persuaded to organize events for campus and groups. When all the people are motivated to guide, the pace must be kept. Here the “highlighting” operation enters. If people can observe that their job is not for nothing, they want to move forward to guide and work to transform. However, what happens when there is no place for the “Big Potential” or leadership in your occupations? The profession of yours may not be the place you want to be in or what you would like to do, maybe the boss disheartens you every time. The answer is to search for sense and satisfaction in whatever you are in, that we will talk about it later on. Everybody, from the boss to the doorman, could perceive sense in whatever they do, and this would allow “Big Potential” to come. With just a two-minute practice every day, you can initiate your discovery of the Big Potential; writing the times that you feel the sense in work. This is an exercise for our brains to realize these times better and search for means to increase them. Chapter 4 - Amplify people with the correct type of compliment and hearten everyone to compliment each other more. Previously, we talked about the occurrences when people perceive success as scarce. They become rivals and look for individual benefits. Our thought of compliment is influenced similarly. We think that not many people can have compliments and for this, we look for getting compliments more than we compliment. This is the wrong way of acting. Compliment connects and inspires people by adding up to the “Virtuous Cycle”. The more compliments one receives, the more they are motivated to succeed and find ways to get more compliments. In consequence, the third act in the way of actualizing Big Potential is “Enhancing” people around you via compliments. But which type of compliment works? The correct type of compliment does block others. If we compliment our friend as being the “best”, this may be understood that the others are not as great or there is the “worst” as well. This compliment compares your friend with anyone else, you should refrain from it by not using the superlatives such as “the most clever” or “the nicest”.