This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 486.

Us as human beings, we like to look at success.

We like to aspire to be successful like some of the people that we admire.

But the thing that really brings us together and builds that cohesion is actually the struggle.

What distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great?

The highest performers don't use tricks or hacks to achieve greatness.

They use mental frameworks that fundamentally change the way they see the world.

They've learned how to unlock

their hidden genius in order to reach their full potential. Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the

Read to Lead podcast, the podcast that is dedicated to your personal and professional growth. Each

week, I interview another successful and inspiring author, and we talk about his or her latest book

and their unique insights on a number of different topics.

I am really excited today because I'm finally getting a chance to sit down with the author

of a book called Hidden Genius, The Secret Ways of Thinking, that How Are the World's Most Successful

People? That author's name is Paulina Maranovaompliano, and I'll be asking her to share about

why she believes we should approach creativity as a muscle you can exercise as opposed to a

talent you either have or you don't, and the importance of contemplating unexpected things

together, how listening to yourself and talking to yourself differ,

and which one of the two you should embrace and why, and what it looks like to lead from the

bottom up rather than top down, plus much, much more. If many in your life who surround you

aren't the type of people who read books who maybe don't cherish things like personal

and professional development, lifelong learning and those types of things, then if I get a deal

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