Laureate origin stories: Adam Smith explores what factors make a Nobel Prize laureate
Nobel Prize Conversations
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The People Around You Are the Ones Who Create Us
The people around us are the ones who create us. And yet at some point you have to be different from the people around you so that you can do something different. Whether it's having the self-knowledge and bravery to become an advocate for peace in a place where everybody seems to be fighting each other or whether it's that you approach a problem in an entirely new way. So it's partly being influenced by everyone around you to understand the problem and understand how to approach the problem and understand what matters. And then it’s having the foresight to think differently and make some jump to some new place.
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