一般注記Why you should improve -- The potential principle -- Why get better? -- The path to improvement -- The potential matrix -- Escalating performance: if you don't think you can keep getting better, you don't know jack -- Leveraged learning: how to go from waiting tables to NASA -- Deeper thinking: what you can learn from a famous sculpture -- Insightful introspection: how to enter the room with no door and accurate mirrors -- The means of improvement -- Disrupt yourself: if you don't, something or somebody else will -- (re)Focus: the antidote to perpetual distraction -- Engage others: the keys to uncommon improvement -- Increasing capacity: the secret of the partially filled glass -- What matters: how a speech about hunting knife safety changed my life -- Appendix 1: Sixteen combinations of matrix and breakthrough improvement -- Appendix 2: The eight questions for making your best better.