Accelerate! With Andy Paul

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors and author of Disrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve. Discussed in the book is how an S-curve can be used to explain how people learn and grow. Whitney uses the example of her own career and how, after experiencing explosive growth and reaching the top of the S-curve, she wanted to fill an emotional need that was not being fulfilled on Wall Street. She explores all about this S-curve, from the element of risk involved in disruption to playing out the process of an S-curve to maximize learning and growth. HIGHLIGHTS Leaving Wall Street to write Disrupt Yourself and apply it to herself The S-curve helps to understand how people learn and grow Experimenting and the vulnerability of being wrong Embrace constraints because the greatest creativity comes from them QUOTES Whitney explains how the S-curve explains how people grow: "I was already thinking that disruption applies to products and services and people, I think th