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Have you ever asked yourself, Is this it? Maybe youre trapped in a dead-end job that youre afraid to leave. Or maybe you already have a good job-one that gives you room to grow and exercise your talents-but you dont really feel like youre doing your best work. Your life is plain vanilla, yet you know in your heart that you can be a triple scoop banana split. You just dont know how to make that leap. So what do you do? Rick Smith knows firsthand what its like to feel stuck in a career rut. He worked in a midlevel job where he had modest success. Then his life took an unexpected turn and he found himself creating a business that became successful beyond his wildest dreams. He unlocked a level of performance he did not know he had in him. After all, Smith was just a regular guy who didnt like to take chances or even step outside his comfort zone. But as he found out, those qualities dont have to be stumbling blocks. In fact, theyre two of the keys to making the leap from good to great. And after talking to others who had also transformed their careers from mundane to magnificent, he realized that the secret doesnt lie with some mysterious talent, trait, or affinity for risk. And it certainly doesnt require you to quit your job and start from scratch. Rather, it lies with your ability to harness your true strengths and passions-what Smith calls your Primary Color. Youll meet remarkable people whove made the leap, such as: A soft-spoken middle manager who transformed her company, her industry, and her career with a simple-yet groundbreaking-idea. A door-to-door fax machine saleswoman who became a global fashion mogul after developing her own line of womens apparel. A Florida shrimp farmer who became a globally recognized genetics expert after both of his sons were diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. A software designer who became a leading advocate for the homeless after volunteering part time at a local shelter and realizing his true calling. Through powerful anecdotes, lessons from brain science, and tools for self-assessment, Smith shows how, with the right amount of passion, determination, and three simple steps, anyone can make the leap to a more successful and fulfilling life.
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This book is dedicated to you, the reader.
It is no accident that you are holding this book.
Your potential has been waiting for this day.
The time has come to explore an unexpected future,
to accomplish something beyond yourself,
to turn your career into a calling.
The time has come to explore an unexpected future,
to accomplish something beyond yourself,
to turn your career into a calling.
This is your invitation to stop working and start living.
Introduction
The date was an unseasonably warm December 27, 2002, and I was sitting on an examining table, wearing a thin cotton gown, waiting for the doctor to return.
There was no urgency. This was my annual checkup, and in general, I felt perfectly healthy despite the five extra pounds I had lugged in with me. When my doctor, a balding man with an Uncle Fester look about him, finally made it back to the examining room with my test results, he gave me a reassuring smile and said, Good news, Rick, you are completely unremarkable!
I suppose I should have been thrilled at that moment. Bad things begin to happen to people even in their midthirties, and I had been spared such drama. Instead, I remember studying the regular ups and downs of my EKG and thinking with a sigh, gee, this is what unremarkable must look like. Time goes by at a steady pace. Theres the occasional blip, but in the end one page looks eerily similar to the next.
In fact, my EKG results seemed at that moment to be a tracking line for my own career, unfolding along a flat line all the way to the horizon. I was a middle-class striverluckier than some, unluckier than others, but just mostly average for the type. I was, in a word, ordinary, as rut-stuck as I could be, and I couldnt see any way out of the fix.
My heart EKG at age 35, but as I stared at the paper, all I could see was the trajectory of my life. Certainly an occasional bit of excitement and hope, but for the most part flat-line, blip, flat-lineas far as my eyes could see.
Welcome to the future, I thought to myself as the doc clapped me on the back and told me to get dressed. Welcome to more of the same.
Then, something completely unexpected happened: My job blew up, my life turned on a dime in an extraordinary new direction, and my energy level and life EKG (not my heart one, thank goodness) jumped right off the page. Over the course of the next 18 months, I wrote a best seller, founded a company that brought me into close contact with some of the leading thinkers and personalities of our time, and eventually sold it for more money than I ever dreamed I might make in my lifetime.
And as all this unfolded, I kept wondering how in the heck this had happened to, of all people, me. And how many others are there like memen and women who have busted free from utterly ordinary trajectories to accomplish extraordinary things with their lives?
Thats where my search began. I set out to find people who had achieved great success without being gifted with the talents and drive that might have marked them as special from an early age. What were the common threads among these extraordinary ordinary people? Why had their careers gone in a different direction than those of men and women with almost identical circumstances and resources who did indeed seem to be bogged down in the ordinariness of the everyday? What helped these extraordinary people break loose, and what can the rest of usthose who are stuck in averagelearn from them?
This book is where my quest has led me, the culmination of half a decade of intensive interviewing and research. Along the way I have met dozens of remarkable people, and I have been incredibly fortunate to have them share their stories with me. Ive also taken a journey into the brain and the interplay of thought and emotion so I could better understand why so many of us are reluctant to let go of lives that neither utilize our strengths nor engage our passions.
What I have discovered is dramatic, counterintuitive, and, for the reader, potentially life changing. The fact is, the woods are full of ordinary people, everyday Joes and Janes, who have transformed rut-stuck careers into deeply fulfilling callingswork that not only has brought them great personal satisfaction but has also had a great and lasting impact on others.
These arent cases of people who fixed their weaknesses. Rather, they became more fully and completely themselves. Nor are these people who dared great things. Instead of courting risk, they eliminated it from the equation of their careers and thus helped to assure their ultimate success. Nor, finally, did these men and women wear themselves to the bone with exceptional effort; in every instance, they simply rode the momentum of an exceptional idea.
Best of all, Ive learned that these leaps are replicable. They follow a pattern, a set of steps that has been ingraining itself in our thinking since the prehistory of the species.
The Leap is a guide to personal evolution. Its a good to great manual for individuals, a book about aligning passions and skills, and about the amazing energy that gets released when we find our personal sweet spot. All of us have a special place on the spectrum where the best of our ability intersects with what most inspires us. Too few of us ever find that spot or even know its there. But it is there, and its magic. This book will point you to it.
In these pages, you will read about the power of certain ideas to cut through all the filters, spam, and otherwise that our brains have erected in an age of total-saturation communication. All ideas are not created equal. Some are force multipliers: they have the power to engage others in your quest and assure that you do not leap alone. I will show you why that is so and how to take advantage of it.
Reimagining your career and reigniting your potential takes work, sometimes enormous effort. The forces that hold us in our present circumstances are many and powerful. Yet, as the title suggests, this is not a guide to living and acting on the edge. In fact, this is a book about predictability, a book about using the hardwiring of the brain to assure that, whatever change you set out to make in your career, the odds will be stacked in your favor.
The Leap is not a call to toss aside all that youve already achieved in your career. But it does ask that you find the courageand it does take courageto open yourself up to the possibility of a future of great impact, rich with fulfillment. Many have found this within the walls of their current employers, or even within their current roles. If you can do the same, both you and your employer will be the better for it.
Most of all, this is a book about real people. Some have become almost household names; others have succeeded more quietly as teachers, community leaders, corporate innovators, inner-city mission workers, and rock promoters. But what they have in common with each other is how ordinary they all were at the outset. They faced the same challenges and fears as most of us. They were saddled with the same flawed tool set most of us are born with, and yet they did break out. Rather than hold them back, the very fact of their ordinariness propelled them forward. This book will show you why and how that was so, and how the same thing can happen to you.
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