How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies «originals»: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. «The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because theyre the ones who try the most,» Grant says. «You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.»

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