The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness Audiobook (Free)

Are you above common? Is your son or daughter an Students? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged relating to how carefully we arrive to it or what lengths we deviate from it.

The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average-like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings-reveal something meaningful about our potential is indeed ingrained in our consciousness that people don’t even question it. That assumption, about The End of Typical: How We Succeed in a World That Ideals Sameness says Harvard’s Todd Rose, is usually spectacularly-and scientifically-wrong.

In The End of Average, Rose, a rising star in the new field from the science of the individual shows that nobody is average. Not you. Not your children. Not your employees. This is not hollow sloganeering-it’s a mathematical fact with enormous practical effects. But while we know people learn and develop in unique ways, these unique patterns of behaviors are lost in our institutions and businesses which were designed round the mythical “person with average skills.” This average-size-fits-all model ignores our variations and fails at spotting talent. It’s time to change it.

Weaving science, background, and his personal experiences as a higher school dropout, Rose offers a powerful alternative to understanding individuals through averages: the 3 principles of individuality. The jaggedness theory (talent is often jagged), the context process (traits are a myth), as well as the pathways principle (most of us walk the street less traveled) help us understand our true uniqueness-and that of others-and how to take full advantage of individuality to get an edge in life.

Go through this powerful manifesto in the rates of Drive, Quiet, and Mindset-and you won’t find averages or talent in the same way again.