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Adam Grant Quotes

American - Author | August 13, 1981 -

I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

Children Know Want Become Others

When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

Strength People End Finding Know Up

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

Creative Strong Moral Compass Evolve

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

Night I Can Cleaning Try Out Get

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

Morning Creative Mind Research Start

I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

Time Start Think Long Need Leave

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

Time Trying Done Whatever Things

We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

Service Day Ideas World Better Way

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

Creativity People Ideas Reality Go

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Ideas Rest Better More Us Just

I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

Good People Good Things Weird You

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

People Ideas Possibilities Trying

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