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Originals – Adam Grant
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“ninguém pode ser original em determinado campo se não possuir a estabilidade emocional e social que advém de atitudes regulares em todas as outras áreas que não aquela em que está sendo original”.38
Peter Thiel also has suggested in numerous public talks that “being Aspergery” may be useful for insulating oneself from many social trends and thus for maintaining originality in one’s thinking. In Peter’s basic model of human behavior, influenced by his former Stanford professor René Girard, mimetic desire is strong—that is, human beings look to
... See moreIn venture capital and content creation, originality is really, really valued. Whether you call it originality, being disobedient, or being contrarian—the combination of being analytical and not fully obedient has been important.
An extensive literature exists on the question of innovation, particularly with reference to scientific and technological fields. I have tried to include a broad survey of these works in the bibliography, but several works have been disproportionately influential on my argument and method in this book. Dean Keith Simonton’s Origins of Genius and Ho
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