The Creative Power of Misfits

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Harness the power of frustrated people to shake up the status quo — just like Pixar did. This episode is made possible with the support of Bonobos, Accenture, Hilton, and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:06.5	What's your favorite movie?
0:08.5	One of them is Rasket Ralph and another
0:12.7	Mr. P. Roddy and Sherman my kids have seen a lot of cartoons a lot
0:19.6	On the TV and in the movie theater my wife and I love animated films too
0:24.8	When we were growing up there was only one name in animated movies
0:30.4	Disney
0:32.6	For about six decades they were pretty much the only game in town
0:36.6	By the mid-90s Disney films had started to follow a formula
0:40.3	They would take an old story at a few musical numbers and voila
0:44.8	Pocahontas Hercules Mulan
0:48.1	But then something new happened in animation
0:51.3	Two infinity and beyond
0:54.2	I
0:57.2	Pixar reinvented how you make an animated movie
1:00.4	Instead of drawing characters you code them on a computer
1:03.5	Which makes them come alive in 3d instead of being flat and two-dimensional
1:08.0	I'm sure you remember Pixar's first computer animated movie toy story
1:13.9	It was a smash
1:15.4	Not just because the tech was cool, but also because this story was fresh
1:19.2	It was just so vivid and funny and the characters were
1:23.1	original
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