{"id":1931308,"date":"2016-03-02T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/03\/02\/by-my-definition-originality-involves-introducing-and-advancing\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T16:37:25","slug":"by-my-definition-originality-involves-introducing-and-advancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/by-my-definition-originality-involves-introducing-and-advancing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBy my definition originality involves introducing and advancing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/468574494\/468577159\" frameborder=0><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy my definition, <b>originality<\/b> involves introducing and advancing an idea that\u2019s relatively unusual within a particular domain, and that has the potential to improve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The faults in defaults. \u201cTo get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRegardless of political ideologies, when a candidate seemed destined to win, people liked him more. When his odds dropped, they liked him less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntrepreneurs who kept their day jobs had 33 percent lower odds of failure than those who quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation\u2014it\u2019s idea selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intuitions are only accurate in domains where we have a lot of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower involves exercising control or authority over others; status is being respected and admired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo form alliances with opposing groups, it\u2019s best to temper the cause, cooling it as much as possible. Yet to draw allies into joining the cause itself, what\u2019s needed is a moderately tempered message that is neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn general, we tend to be overconfident about our own invulnerability to harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some lessons on groupthink. \u201cThe evidence suggests that social bonds don\u2019t drive groupthink; the culprits are overconfidence and reputational concerns.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridgewater has prevented groupthink by inviting dissenting opinions from every employee in the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The positive power of negative thinking. \u201cMost people assume it\u2019s better to be a strategic optimist than a defensive pessimist. Yet Norem finds that although defensive pessimists are more anxious and less confident in analytical, verbal, and creative tasks, they perform just as well as strategic optimists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Adam Grant, Originals How Non-Conformists Move The World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy my definition, originality involves introducing and advancing an idea that\u2019s relatively unusual within a particular domain, and that has the potential to improve it.\u201d The faults in defaults. \u201cTo get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. 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