Adam Grant - Ideas Quotes

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Most of us don't act on these ideas. We're afraid we're going to be rejected or ridiculed, or that we're going to waste our time and no one is going to hear our ideas. It's amazing how many originals almost never acted because of fear and futility.

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If we leave all the idea championing to men, then we're going to lose out on a lot of ideas that need perseverance to see the light of day. If women don't speak up, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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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.

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If your organization is larger than six people, there's a good chance not everyone will hate your idea equally.

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The evidence says that although women tend to be more hesitant to speak up and challenge the status quo because of the risks of being seen as too assertive, they are actually more likely to persist. Once they commit to something, they will follow through to see that it succeeds, whereas men are much more likely to float an idea and be like, "No, just kidding."

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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.

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When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea...

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