The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 26, 2016

Duration

15m

Channel

TED

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones." Adam hosts the TED Audio Collective podcast WorkLife with Adam Grant--a show that takes you inside the minds of some of the world's most unusual professionals to discover the keys to a better work life. Listen to WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to the TED Audio Collective: https://www.youtube.com/TEDAudioCollective The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy. For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Adam Grant

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  Organizational psychologist and author known for research on creativity, motivation, and original thinking.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of TED, featuring Adam Grant, The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED explores Original thinkers procrastinate, doubt defaults, and generate many bad ideas Adam Grant explains what he learned about “originals”—non-conformists who champion new ideas—after wrongly declining to invest in the early Warby Parker team.

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