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#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Quality of Ideas and Market Timing

In the realm of entrepreneurship and product launches, settlers are seven times less likely to fail than pioneers. Creating a market from scratch requires significant effort and specific investments that can be hard to change. Being slow to finish can have value in the innovation process. Original thinkers generate more ideas, including bad ones, which ultimately increases their chances of stumbling upon truly great ideas. The key to better idea selection is generating a large number of ideas to increase the likelihood of finding valuable ones, even though it may involve facing dead ends and false starts.

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