But the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

In the workplace, classroom, or just life in general, we're often confronted with new

ideas.

So, how do we know which ones will actually work?

Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of Business, an author of the best-selling

book, Originals, How Non-Conformists Move the World.

According to Grant, a good group to consult is peers.

So I think my favorite way to look at this comes from this study that a former student

in my Justin Berg did.

He's now a professor at Stanford, and he wanted to know, how do you predict the success

of new ideas?

So he studied circus artists like at Cirque du Soleil.

He got them to submit videos of their own acts, really novel ones, like you've never seen

before.

So different ways of juggling and acrobatics and clowns, although it turns out everyone

hates clowns.

He was interested in, could you predict how successful the videos were going to be

with audiences?

So 13,000 plus audience members watched the videos, they rate how much they like them,

they share them on social, they can also donate some of their own money to them to see

if they really would pay to see the performers.

And the first group that he looks at is people judging their own acts, the artists themselves.

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