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Traits of "original thinkers"




Description: 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."

 
 

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facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries.

Nikola Tesla

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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