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Episode 127: Adam Grant – How Originals Impact The World

Adam Grant has been a leader I've admired since I read his NY Times best-selling book, "Give and Take" in 2013. The book changed my life. It changed how I view the world and how I view success. The path to success and sustained excellence is different than I originally thought and I have Adam to thank for you. It was an absolute thrill to have this conversation with Adam.

Adam Grant is Wharton's top-rated professor and a New York Times writer on work and psychology. He has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers, the 100 most creative people in business, the 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell's favorite thinkers.

Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink; it is a #1 national bestseller and one of Amazon's best books of February 2016. Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success, and was named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads and Harvard Business Review's ideas that shaped management.

Adam received a standing ovation for his 2016 TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project on the success of givers and takers.

Episode 127: Adam Grant

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"It's a myth that you have to be a big risk taker to be a successful entrepreneur."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Being a dedicated learner and always raising the bar leads to sustained excellence
• Realizing he had no excuse not to share his ideas with the world after he made tenure
• Why Adam does not consider himself an Original
• It's not that we struggle with creativity, it's Originality where we are lacking
• Getting invited to the main TED conference
• The process for writing and delivering a world class TED talk
• The importance of having a coach – Adam had 4 speaking coaches helping him prepare and edit his TED Talk
• How to deal with a Taker who has success
• Why procrastination helps spur creativity
• Creativity and curiosity are the starting point for all originality
• The best originals think about risk like a stock portfolio
• A learning leader cares more about getting better than they do about their own ego

"I don't think we struggle at creativity, we struggle at originality."

Continue Learning:

• Go To: AdamGrant.net
• See Why Over 66,000 People Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamMGrant
• Read: Give and Take
• Read: Originals
• To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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