If you have ever wondered why First Borns CONFORM Late Borns REBEL, read this insight inspired from Adam Grant’s book.
Historically if you look at the pattern, late borns in a family have been known to challenge the status quo whereas early borns have been known to play by the rule book.
This insight explains more on the same and has been inspired from Adam Grant’s book Originals.
To understand the harmful effects of groupthink and how it led to the downfall of POLAROID, read this blog post.
Groupthink is indeed the enemy of originality since it discourages dissent and encourages conformity.
POLAROID’s groupthink made key company stakeholders to believe that customers would obsess over HARDCOPIED of PICTURES without realizing the actual ground realities.
The same has been highlighted in this insight inspired from the book Originals
Why does Overthinking come naturally to us? To know this answer read this blog post inspired from Adam Grant’s book Originals.
In his book the author enlightens us how thinking beyond a limit comes naturally to all of us.
This is why getting rid of this habit needs focus and attention of the present moment.
The Four reasons why this is so difficult has been mentioned in the following insight:
Let this pot inspire you to focus on the present moment to get rid of the anxiety and fear associated with overthinking.
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https://viewpointsunplugged.com/best-tips-to-unleash-originality/
To know the best tips to unleash originality, please read this blog post.
In his book Originals, the author Adam Grant throws more light into the making of originals.
These tips when practiced regularly will go a long way into helping you achieve great outcomes that can help leave behind a legacy of your own.
All of these tips are an outcome of deep research done by the author.
The lives of world beaters have been studied to the minutest detail by Adam Grant in arriving at these best practices.
I have personally found all the points very logical.
Hope you all like the same.
This blog post enlightens you to beware of your frenemies. These are people who are ambivalent and can be very tricky to deal with.
In his book Originals, Adam Grant tells us that these people take a heavy toll of our emotional energy and hence we need to be very careful with these people.
We are often misled into hating and avoiding only our enemies but these people are equally harmful if not more.
Look at this grid and be enlightened by this insight to stay away from frenemies.
Choose your friends wisely..
The role of procrastination in the iconic Monalisa painting will become more evident as you read through this blog.
More often that not we associate procrastination in a negative sense. In his book Originals Adam Grant shows how this can be positively used by creators like Leonardo Da vinci.
As you can see in the below insight inspired from the same book, it took him more than 15 years to complete this painting.
At each stage in life during this period procrastination was being used to instill more creativity in this painting.
So next time you look down upon procrastination, think again!!
Practice leads to greatness. Nothing can be more evident than the examples that Adam Grant has provided in his book Originals.
In his book the author argues that greatness can only be achieved when we do a high volume of work. Only a small fraction of the work would eventually be considered great.
As you can see all these great personalities produced a huge volume of work out of which only a small fraction is remembered by many.
The big lesson we derive from this is continuous practice will refine our art.
True artists who are successful in life and have taken the journey from creativity to art know the difference between the two.
Creativity alone without rigorous practice is impossible to produce art that can stand the test of time.
In his book Originals the author Adam Grant enlightens us on the difference between creativity and true art.
As you can see making mistakes and failing is the foundation to creating ageless art.
For another insightful post from Adam Grant’s book Give and Take, please visit this link:
For true originality remember this tip inspired from Adam Grant’s book Originals.
To be original we do not necessarily have to be first movers. There are times when being a first mover can land us in trouble.
This is why Adam Grant argues that most of the truly originals who are known for path breaking work are cautiously optimistic.
The below insight sums it all and enlightens us on the true definition of the term.
For another wonderful insight from one such Adam Grant book please visit the following link:
https://viewpointsunplugged.com/best-definition-of-true-friend/
Each time I search for the best definition of a true friend, I am reminded of a wonderful insight shared by Adam Grant in his best selling book Originals.
A true friend is indeed one who has our back and stays with us through our thick and think.
Such a person encourages us and sees more potential in us than we see ourselves, inspires us to stretch ourselves to reach our full potential.
Most important we become better version of ourselves in their company.
Highlighted below is the definition inspired from Adam Grant’s Originals.
Our lives would never be fulfilling without having true friends as mentioned by Simon Sinek. Listen to this video.