Are you an original? Book Insight on Originals by Adam Grant

*Organizational psychologist Adam Grant believes it’s possible to be an innovator without having many of the downsides associated with creativity, such as isolation and anxiety.   * If you’ve had enough of hearing about ‘superpeople’ who have changed the world through their ideas and inventions, it may be daunting to ever think you could also be an ‘original’ in this way.   * Recent research illuminates the concrete steps we can all follow to become more innovative and creative, and to challenge fixed ways of thinking which brings success in our own lives, and benefits society.

*Theme 1: Are You An Original? - 3:16

*Theme 2: How Originals Get Their Ideas - 14:15

*Theme 3: Building An Original Company Or Workplace - 23:15

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HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE HERE:

Eat Sleep Work Repeat. (2019). Adam Grant – ‘the case for optimism’. [online] Available at: https://eatsleepworkrepeat.fm/adam-grant-the-case-for-optimism/.

Grant, A. (2019). Transcript of "The surprising habits of original thinkers". [online] Ted.com. Available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers/transcript?language=en#t-912728.

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Full Title: Originals

Year of Publication: 2016

Book Author: Adam Grant

Book Insight Writer: Justine Taylor

Editor: Morwenna Loughman

Producer: Gabriel Mara

Production Manager: Karin Richey

Narrator: Tom Evans

Curator: Tom Butler-Bowdon