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Can you really be at your best even when you are underqualified or performing something for the first time? Could it be still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, interest, and fearlessness of youngsters to take on new challenges? With the right mindset-with Rookie Smarts-you can.

In a quickly changing world, experience could be a curse. Professions stall, innovation halts, and strategies grow stale. Being new, naïve, and even clueless can about First year Smarts: Why Learning Beats Understanding in the New Game of Function be a secured asset. For today’s understanding workers, constant learning is more important than mastery.

In this essential guide, leadership expert Liz Wiseman clarifies how to reclaim and cultivate this curious, flexible, youthful mindset called Rookie Smarts. She argues how the most effective rookies are hunter-gatherers-alert and searching for, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and starving and relentless like pioneers. Most importantly, she identifies a variety of market leaders she identifies as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of knowledge, they maintain their rookie smarts, considering and operating with the mindsets and procedures of the high-performing rookies.

Rookie Smarts addresses the queries every experienced professional faces: “Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and irrelevant? Will a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my firm or me? How can I continue?” The answer is to remain fresh, keep learning, and understand when to think like a rookie.

First year Smarts isn’t simply for experts looking for personal renewal; it is an indispensible source for all leaders who must ensure their workforces continues to be vital and competitive.