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Adam M. Grant Quote: “At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious – and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain. After.”

101. “At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious – and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain. After.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Many communicators try to make themselves look smart. Great listeners are more interested in making their audiences feel smart.”

102. “Many communicators try to make themselves look smart. Great listeners are more interested in making their audiences feel smart.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft.”

103. “In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When you’re wrong, it’s not something to be depressed about. Say, ‘Hey, I discovered something!”

104. “When you’re wrong, it’s not something to be depressed about. Say, ‘Hey, I discovered something!”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Rice professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. He points to studies showing that expert bridge players struggled more than novices to adapt when the rules were changed, and that expert accountants were worse than novices at applying a new tax law. As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes.”

105. “Rice professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. He points to studies showing that expert bridge players struggled more than novices to adapt when the rules were changed, and that expert accountants were worse than novices at applying a new tax law. As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When we’re determined to reach an objective, it’s the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.”

106. “When we’re determined to reach an objective, it’s the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Originality comes not from people who match the culture, but from those who enrich it.”

107. “Originality comes not from people who match the culture, but from those who enrich it.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.”

108. “We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.”

109. “To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “There’s a fourth technique of motivational interviewing, which is often recommended for the end of a conversation and for transition points: summarizing. The idea is to explain your understanding of other people’s reasons for change, to check on whether you’ve missed or misrepresented anything, and to inquire about their plans and possible next steps.”

110. “There’s a fourth technique of motivational interviewing, which is often recommended for the end of a conversation and for transition points: summarizing. The idea is to explain your understanding of other people’s reasons for change, to check on whether you’ve missed or misrepresented anything, and to inquire about their plans and possible next steps.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “What look like differences in natural ability are often differences in opportunity and motivation.”

111. “What look like differences in natural ability are often differences in opportunity and motivation.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “The more successful people have been in the past, the worse they perform when they enter a new environment.”

112. “The more successful people have been in the past, the worse they perform when they enter a new environment.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we’ve already made. As we recognize what we’ve invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.”

113. “When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we’ve already made. As we recognize what we’ve invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “But when I looked at the evidence, I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across.”

114. “But when I looked at the evidence, I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Her confidence wasn’t in her existing knowledge – it was in her capacity to learn.”

115. “Her confidence wasn’t in her existing knowledge – it was in her capacity to learn.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “All it took was having them spend their initial six minutes a little differently: instead of adopting a managerial mindset for evaluating ideas, they got into a creative mindset by generating ideas themselves. Just.”

116. “All it took was having them spend their initial six minutes a little differently: instead of adopting a managerial mindset for evaluating ideas, they got into a creative mindset by generating ideas themselves. Just.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand.”

117. “To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.”

118. “The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Ultimately, the people who choose to champion originality are the ones who propel us forward. After spending years studying them and interacting with them, I am struck that their inner experiences are not any different from our own. They feel the same fear, the same doubt, as the rest of us. What sets them apart is that they take action anyway. They know in their hearts that failing would yield less regret than failing to try.”

119. “Ultimately, the people who choose to champion originality are the ones who propel us forward. After spending years studying them and interacting with them, I am struck that their inner experiences are not any different from our own. They feel the same fear, the same doubt, as the rest of us. What sets them apart is that they take action anyway. They know in their hearts that failing would yield less regret than failing to try.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “On matters of style, swim with the current,” Thomas Jefferson allegedly advised, but “on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” The pressure to achieve leads us to do the opposite. We find surface ways of appearing original – donning a bow tie, wearing bright red shoes – without taking the risk of actually being original. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.”

120. “On matters of style, swim with the current,” Thomas Jefferson allegedly advised, but “on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” The pressure to achieve leads us to do the opposite. We find surface ways of appearing original – donning a bow tie, wearing bright red shoes – without taking the risk of actually being original. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades.”

121. “But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Prof acts all down with pop culture, but secretly thinks Ariana Grande is a font in Microsoft Word.”

122. “Prof acts all down with pop culture, but secretly thinks Ariana Grande is a font in Microsoft Word.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit. If you’re risk averse and have some doubts about the feasibility of your ideas, it’s likely that your business will be built to last. If you’re a freewheeling gambler, your startup is far more fragile.”

123. “Entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit. If you’re risk averse and have some doubts about the feasibility of your ideas, it’s likely that your business will be built to last. If you’re a freewheeling gambler, your startup is far more fragile.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Along with providing time to generate novel ideas, procrastination has another benefit: it keeps us open to improvisation. When we plan well in advance, we often stick to the structure we’ve created, closing the door to creative possibilities that might spring into our fields of vision. Years.”

124. “Along with providing time to generate novel ideas, procrastination has another benefit: it keeps us open to improvisation. When we plan well in advance, we often stick to the structure we’ve created, closing the door to creative possibilities that might spring into our fields of vision. Years.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Lectures aren’t designed to accommodate dialogue or disagreement; they turn students into passive receivers of information rather than active thinkers.”

125. “Lectures aren’t designed to accommodate dialogue or disagreement; they turn students into passive receivers of information rather than active thinkers.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “What stands in the way of rethinking isn’t the expression of emotion; it’s a restricted range of emotion.”

126. “What stands in the way of rethinking isn’t the expression of emotion; it’s a restricted range of emotion.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Becoming a creature of discomfort can unlock hidden potential in many different types of learning. Summoning the nerve to face discomfort is a character skill – an especially important form of determination. It takes three kinds of courage: to abandon your tried-and-true methods, to put yourself in the ring before you feel ready, and to make more mistakes than others make attempts. The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.”

127. “Becoming a creature of discomfort can unlock hidden potential in many different types of learning. Summoning the nerve to face discomfort is a character skill – an especially important form of determination. It takes three kinds of courage: to abandon your tried-and-true methods, to put yourself in the ring before you feel ready, and to make more mistakes than others make attempts. The best way to accelerate growth is to embrace, seek, and amplify discomfort.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. – attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, physicist, biologist, and artist.”

128. “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. – attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, physicist, biologist, and artist.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “As economist Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, originality is an act of creative destruction. Advocating for new systems often requires demolishing the old way of doing things, and we hold back for fear of rocking the boat.”

129. “As economist Joseph Schumpeter famously observed, originality is an act of creative destruction. Advocating for new systems often requires demolishing the old way of doing things, and we hold back for fear of rocking the boat.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.”

130. “To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Requiring proof is an enemy of progress.”

131. “Requiring proof is an enemy of progress.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein.”

132. “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that’s distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That’s the sweet spot of confidence.”

133. “Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that’s distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That’s the sweet spot of confidence.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “But our best allies aren’t the people who have supported us all along. They’re the ones who started out against us and then came around to our side.”

134. “But our best allies aren’t the people who have supported us all along. They’re the ones who started out against us and then came around to our side.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When I put up a slide that says ‘Here’s why you shouldn’t buy this company,’ the first response was laughter. Then you could see them physically relax. It’s sincere; it doesn’t smell, feel, or look anything like sales. They’re no longer being sold.”

135. “When I put up a slide that says ‘Here’s why you shouldn’t buy this company,’ the first response was laughter. Then you could see them physically relax. It’s sincere; it doesn’t smell, feel, or look anything like sales. They’re no longer being sold.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Confident humility doesn’t just open our minds to rethinking – it improves the quality of our rethinking.”

136. “Confident humility doesn’t just open our minds to rethinking – it improves the quality of our rethinking.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”

137. “In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself,” Einstein lamented.”

138. “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself,” Einstein lamented.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Character is more than just having principles. It’s a learned capacity to live by your principles.”

139. “Character is more than just having principles. It’s a learned capacity to live by your principles.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Takers tend to worry that revealing weaknesses will compromise their dominance and authority. Givers are much more comfortable expressing vulnerability: they’re interested in helping others, not gaining power over them, so they’re not afraid of exposing chinks in their armor. By making themselves vulnerable, givers can actually build prestige. But there’s a twist: expressing vulnerability is only effective if the audience receives other signals establishing the speaker’s competence.”

140. “Takers tend to worry that revealing weaknesses will compromise their dominance and authority. Givers are much more comfortable expressing vulnerability: they’re interested in helping others, not gaining power over them, so they’re not afraid of exposing chinks in their armor. By making themselves vulnerable, givers can actually build prestige. But there’s a twist: expressing vulnerability is only effective if the audience receives other signals establishing the speaker’s competence.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.”

141. “It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “The more experiments you run, the less constrained you become by your ideas from the past. You.”

142. “The more experiments you run, the less constrained you become by your ideas from the past. You.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “My favorite bias is the “I’m not biased” bias, in which people believe they’re more objective than others. It turns out that smart people are more likely to fall into this trap. The brighter you are, the harder it can be to see your own limitations. Being good at thinking can make you worse at rethinking.”

143. “My favorite bias is the “I’m not biased” bias, in which people believe they’re more objective than others. It turns out that smart people are more likely to fall into this trap. The brighter you are, the harder it can be to see your own limitations. Being good at thinking can make you worse at rethinking.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could do things over, most of us would censor ourselves less and express our ideas more. That’s.”

144. “And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could do things over, most of us would censor ourselves less and express our ideas more. That’s.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Today, we have compelling evidence that interest precedes the development of talent. It turns out that motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.”

145. “Today, we have compelling evidence that interest precedes the development of talent. It turns out that motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist. Even with a receptive audience, dominance is a zero-sum game: the more power and authority I have, the less you have.”

146. “When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist. Even with a receptive audience, dominance is a zero-sum game: the more power and authority I have, the less you have.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Unbridled optimism comes across as salesmanship; it seems dishonest somehow, and as a consequence it’s met with skepticism. Everyone is allergic to the feeling, or suspicious of being sold.”

147. “Unbridled optimism comes across as salesmanship; it seems dishonest somehow, and as a consequence it’s met with skepticism. Everyone is allergic to the feeling, or suspicious of being sold.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “Character is often confused with personality, but they’re not the same. Personality is your predisposition – your basic instincts for how to think, feel, and act. Character is your capacity to prioritize your values over your instincts.”

148. “Character is often confused with personality, but they’re not the same. Personality is your predisposition – your basic instincts for how to think, feel, and act. Character is your capacity to prioritize your values over your instincts.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case anyway. We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.”

149. “An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case anyway. We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.”

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Adam M. Grant Quote: “The greatest communicators of all time,” says communication expert Nancy Duarte – who has spent her career studying the shape of superb presentations – start by establishing “what is: here’s the status quo.” Then, they “compare that to what could be,” making “that gap as big as possible.”

150. “The greatest communicators of all time,” says communication expert Nancy Duarte – who has spent her career studying the shape of superb presentations – start by establishing “what is: here’s the status quo.” Then, they “compare that to what could be,” making “that gap as big as possible.”

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