Professional Documents
Culture Documents
You You Price Pritchett Price Pritchett
You You Price Pritchett Price Pritchett
You You Price Pritchett Price Pritchett
This is about
the power of
“you squared”
The quantum leap strategy for breakthrough
performance.
"ook inside for
for opportunity.
A True Story
I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a
peaceful little place hien behin the pine trees
about an hour out of Toronto. It’s $ust past noon, late
%uly, an I’m listening to the esperate souns of a
life&or&eath struggle going on a few feet away.
Price Pritchett
you 2 Price Pritchett
Contents
The Promise
!uantum "eaps
you 2
1uspen isbelief.
1eek failure.
3et uncomfortable.
#all in love.
The Promise
*re you reay for this
things incrementally or
gradually.
you 2 Price Pritchett
Quantum eaps
Quantum leap is a term taken from the vocabulary of
the new physics—quantum physics—the science
behin such technological breakthroughs as lasers,
television, computers, space communication, an
nuclear energy. !uantum physics is escribe as the
most powerful science ever conceive of by human
beings. It requires a ma$or rethinking of such concepts
as time an space, an how the human consciousness
operates.
you2
Most people operate with a minset that assumes
success comes one step at a time. The unspoken but
popular notion is that we must move systematically
from our present level of achievement to the ne7t.
Then, the thinking goes, from that stage we can begin
working towar grauating to still the ne7t higher
level in the sequence. 3raual progress.
0ight
A ten or twenty
percent improvement
Suspend disbelief.
*ct as if your success is certain.
something! doubt
your limits.
you 2 Price Pritchett
with pursuing.
in action.
you 2 Price Pritchett
See) failure.
!uantum leaps eman a willingness to make
mistakes.
of your capacities.
you 2 Price Pritchett
-et uncomfortable.
!uantum leaps $erk you out of your comfort (one.
1o press on.
neasiness is a
predictable psychological
*all in love.
!uantum leaps won’t happen if you’re living life
with a lukewarm heart.
something remar)able!
in your heart.
you 2 Price Pritchett
#irst you act, then you frame out the etails of your
strategy. Move on your ream8 start 8an let what
happens help you evelop a coherent game plan.
Mobility is the crucial element. 1trategy formulation
then evolves naturally out of your iscovery process.
5ou’ll iscover, once unerway, that you know more
than you know you know. %ust trust your instincts.
)now.
you 2 Price Pritchett
%ust o it.
,ust do it.