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Are you above average? Is your son or daughter an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we could measured from the yardstick of averages, judged matching to how close we come to it or what lengths we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics contrasting us to an average-like GPAs, personality test outcomes, and performance review ratings-reveal something important about our probable is so ingrained inside our consciousness that people don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly-and scientifically-wrong. In The End of Average, Rose, a growing superstar in the new field of the knowledge of the average person, implies that no the first is average. Not you. Not your children. Not your employees. This isn't hollow sloganeering-it's a mathematical fact with gigantic practical consequences. But while we realize people learn and develop in distinctive ways, these unique patterns of conducts are lost inside our institutions and businesses, which have been designed around the mythical "person with average skills". This average-size-fits-all model ignores our distinctions and fails at spotting talent. It's time to change it. Weaving science, record, and his personal activities as a higher college dropout, Rose offers a powerful alternative to understanding individuals through averages: the three concepts of personality. The jaggedness principle (ability is obviously jagged), the framework principle (traits are a myth), and the pathways principle (we all walk the street less traveled) help us understand our true uniqueness - and that of others - and the way to take full advantage of individuality to gain an advantage in life. Listen to this powerful manifesto in the ranks of Drive, Quiet, and State of mind - and you will not see averages or ability just as again.
