You 2.0: Originals

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Social Sciences, Performing Arts, Science, Arts

4.6 • 42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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What does it mean to be an original? As part of our summer series, You 2.0, we talk with psychology professor Adam Grant about innovators and the challenges they face. Adam gives his take on what makes an original, how parents can nurture originality in their children, and the potential downsides of non-conformity.

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0:00.0	Hi there, Shankar here, we're in the middle of our summer series called U2.0.
0:04.8	This week's episode comes from our early days of Hidden Brain.
0:08.0	It looks at who comes up with great ideas and what we can do to have more of them.
0:14.5	Adam Grant was teaching his first class at the Wharton Business School
0:17.9	when a student came up to him with an interesting proposition.
0:20.4	He says, I've got this big idea.
0:22.0	Three friends and I are going to start an online business and we're going to disrupt an industry.
0:25.8	Do you want to invest?
0:27.2	But from what Adam could see, this group of friends wasn't doing so well
0:31.6	and getting that big idea off the ground.
0:33.6	Six months go by, it's the day before launch,
0:36.1	they still don't have a functioning website.
0:38.2	The whole business is a website, that's literally all it is.
0:40.7	And so I obviously passed on the investment.
0:42.7	The name of the company?
0:44.0	Warby Parker, they were just named the most innovative company in the world
0:47.5	by Fast Company and they're worth over a billion dollars,
0:50.4	which is why my wife handles all her investments now.
0:53.2	I'm Shankar Vedantam and this week on Hidden Brain,
0:59.0	Originals, how to spot one, how to be one.
1:02.5	We bring you my conversation with Adam Grant,
1:04.8	he's a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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