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Blindspots, Bias, Billionaires and Bridgewater with Dr. Adam Grant

The Science of Success

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The Power of Bad Ideas and Creativity

Psychologist en simonson found that the more bad ideas you have, the more creative you are. Part of creativity is because we're too close to our own ideas to judge them accurately. Your first idea is ralely your best and usually it's a rare eureka moment or something at least about six and 700 thoughts in one case. And so if you look at beethoven, bach and mozart, they were all original thinkers but with different kinds of flaws.

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