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TED Talk: Adam Grant: The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers

A person is speaking on a TED stage with a slide titled "The Creative Process," outlining a humorous six-step emotional journey from "This is awesome" to "This is crap" and back to "This is awesome."

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…Read More

February 1, 2016   |   Video
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