What's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential, and How You Can

Outsourcing Our Ambitions

Yet for the High-FF, our fate can be worse than simply watching the goal-setters progress while we get left behind. We are often recruited to help execute their plans, sometimes under the false premise that their goals are also our own. This was very much my experience when starting out as an entrepreneur at Metrocube – my partner spotting my directionless post-banking pursuits and recruiting me as the executer of his own goals (with near-disastrous results for our partnership – see Part Five).

Indeed, in the absence of our own plan, we may as well adopt their goals. Those with a plan inspire confidence in others so, if we are directionless, we are bound to follow them. How can we make a decision if we don’t know where ...