Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World

by Adam M. Grant

Vuja de is the reverse—we face something familiar, but we see it with a fresh perspective that enables us to gain new insights into old problems.

The more you value achievement, the more you come to dread failure.

Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.

the biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation—it’s idea selection.

As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes.

It’s true that the early bird gets the worm, but we can’t forget that the early worm gets caught.

Being original doesn’t require being first. It just means being different and better.

Parents of highly creative children had an average of less than one rule and tended to “place emphasis on moral values, rather than on specific rules,”

confirmation bias: When you have a preference, you seek out information supporting it, while overlooking information that challenges it.

Defensive pessimists were about 30 percent more accurate in their dart throws when they thought about negative outcomes rather than imagining positive outcomes or relaxing.

we tend to be risk averse in the domain of benefits.