understanding the innovator’s sense of separateness points out the importance of giving people time alone to pursue their own interests and form their own ideas. It highlights how dangerous norms of consensus are to innovation and reveals the advantages of helping people to embrace their weird sides. People also find it illuminating—and often a relief—to see just how many innovators did not do well in school precisely because of their creativity or their tendency to challenge rules. A surprisingly large portion of the breakthrough innovators have been autodidacts—self-taught people
