Best of: Counterintuitive Lessons on Non-Conformity with Adam Grant

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Join us on Unmistakable Creative for an enlightening conversation with Adam Grant, a renowned Wharton professor, New York Times writer, and influential management thinker. In this episode, Grant delves into the intriguing world of non-conformity, sharing insights from his bestselling book, 'Originals.'

Discover how to get comfortable with ideas that may not always align with popular opinion, and learn to appreciate the moments that truly captivate your attention. Grant emphasizes the importance of developing confidence as a learner and challenges the conformist behavioral patterns prevalent in our education system.

Explore the impact of system justification theory on our decision-making processes and the difference between instructor-driven and student-led learning. Overcome your fear of failure and understand why Grant believes that confidence is won through success, and in a surprising twist, why he thinks conformity is the new originality.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the world's top-rated professors and gain insights that could transform your approach to success. Tune in now!"

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0:00.0	I walked in thinking that to be an original person in the world, a non-conformist who drives creativity and change,
0:06.0	that you had to be four things. I thought you had to be a risk-taker, you had to be full of confidence,
0:11.6	you had to have great ideas, and you had to be the first mover.
0:16.0	And I discovered that all those things were wrong, not only wrong, but backward.
0:20.1	It turns out that most of the original people in the world, whether you're looking at Nobel Prize winning scientists,
0:25.4	successful entrepreneurs, creative musicians,
0:28.4	and artists have these opposite traits in common,
0:32.2	where they're pretty risk averse they're not
0:34.3	daredevils they're cautious they feel the same doubt and fear that the rest of us do
0:39.0	they just harness it as as motivation as opposed to being paralyzed by it.
0:44.4	They have bad ideas.
0:45.6	In fact, they have more bad ideas than the rest of us.
0:48.2	And that's how they get to some true originality,
0:51.0	is they generate enough volume to get variety and stumble on something new.
0:54.9	And they're not first movers, they're procrastinators.
0:59.4	They start things early, but they are deliberately slow to finish because they know that good ideas
1:04.5	often take time to develop.
1:07.0	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving businesses written best-selling books and created insanely interesting art. For more check
1:24.5	out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable creative.com. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats, so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone
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