Are you above normal? Is your son or daughter an Students? Is your worker an introvert or an extrovert? Each day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how carefully we arrive to it or how far we deviate from it.

The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average-like GPAs, personality test outcomes, and performance review ratings-reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don’t even question it. That assumption, about The End of Average: How We Succeed in a global That Values Sameness says Harvard’s Todd Rose, is usually spectacularly-and scientifically-wrong.

In The End of Average, Rose, a growing star in the brand new field of the science of the average person shows that no one is average. Not you. Not your kids. Not your workers. This isn’t hollow sloganeering-it’s a mathematical fact with enormous practical effects. But while we realize people find out and develop in special ways, these exclusive patterns of behaviors are dropped in our universities and businesses which were designed round the mythical “average person.” This average-size-fits-all model ignores our distinctions and fails at recognizing talent. It’s time to change it.

Weaving science, history, and his personal experiences as a higher school dropout, Rose offers a powerful alternative to understanding individuals through averages: the three principles of individuality. The jaggedness process (talent is usually jagged), the context theory (traits are a misconception), and the pathways concept (we all walk the road less journeyed) help us understand our true uniqueness-and that of others-and how to take full advantage of individuality to get an advantage in life.

Go through this powerful manifesto in the rates of Drive, Calm, and Mindset-and you will not see averages or talent just as again.