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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Aside Back Better Complex Creative Deal Email Exercise Find Handled Mind Morning Next Next Morning Often Our Put Research Responding Solution Something Sometimes Start Tasks True Up Wake Wake Up Working Writing You

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I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

~Adam Grant

Topics: About Actually Bunch Drafts Else Emails Leave Long Lot Move Need Onto Purposely Really Response Something Something Else Start Them Things Think Time Unfinished

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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Amount Available Done Get Lots Things Time Trying Whatever

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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. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

~Adam Grant

Topics: About Around Better Better Way Could Day Even Every Every Day How Ideas Insights Less Little Meetings Might Office Original Original Ideas Ourselves Product Running See Service Twist Us Way Wild World Would Your

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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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Topics: Better Geniuses Ideas Just More Rest Than Them Us

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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Bad Bad Things Bring Bunch Different Different People Good Good Things Happen Hire Likely Most Only People Promote Similar Tell Then Things Weird Who Will You I Can

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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

~Adam Grant

Topics: After Failing First Ideas Innovate Most Obvious People Possibilities Recognize Stop Trying

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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Even Go Opinions Out Recognize Reward Them Useful Way Wrong Your

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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

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Topics: Action Also Believe Causes Character Children Moral Need Often People Producing Remember Shapes

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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Curiosity Emotion Give Give And Take Me Take Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 13th, 1981

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