{"id":6805,"date":"2016-02-29T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:01:22","slug":"originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Originals: How To Spot One, How To Be One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">NPR Staff<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/02\/29\/adamgrantnew---copy-3193016753253398d6393724554367f916cec462-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Originals.\" alt=\"Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Originals.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\">Listen to the Story<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>21:21<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\"><span>Playlist<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/play.podtrac.com\/npr-510308\/npr.mc.tritondigital.com\/NPR_510308\/media\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/hiddenbrain\/2016\/02\/20160229_hiddenbrain_originals.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\"><span>Embed<\/span><\/a>\n<div><label>Embed<\/label> <button>Close embed overlay<\/button> <strong><code><strong>&lt;<\/b>iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/468574494\/468577159\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"&gt;<\/strong><\/code><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of <em>Originals<\/em>. <strong>Michael Kamber\/Adam Grant<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Michael Kamber\/Adam Grant<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Consider this: Frank Lloyd Wright was a procrastinator. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are afraid of taking risks. Most of Beethoven&#8217;s compositions are pretty awful. Conventional wisdom suggests these originals were successful <em>despite<\/em> their hemming and hawing, their hedging, and their many flops. But Wharton professor Adam Grant says these defects are actually fundamental to originality. In his new book, <em>Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World<\/em>, Adam investigates who comes up with great ideas, how, and what we can do to have more of them. This week, we bring you our conversation with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak. To subscribe to our newsletter, click <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.us12.list-manage1.com\/subscribe?u=2705d0ba38389c42d1f9ca429&amp;id=90de79e158\">here<\/a>. You can also f<\/em><em>ollow us on Twitter<\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HiddenBrain\">@hiddenbrain<\/a>,<\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaraMcGuirk\">@karamcguirk<\/a>,<\/em><em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggiepenman\">@maggiepenman<\/a><\/em> <em>and<\/em> <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxnesterak\">@maxnesterak<\/a>, and listen for Hidden Brain stories every week on your local public radio station.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Originals: How To Spot One, How To Be One\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/02\/29\/adamgrantnew---copy-3193016753253398d6393724554367f916cec462-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Originals.\" alt=\"Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Originals.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\">Listen to the Story<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <strong>21:21<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\"><span>Playlist<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/play.podtrac.com\/npr-510308\/npr.mc.tritondigital.com\/NPR_510308\/media\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/hiddenbrain\/2016\/02\/20160229_hiddenbrain_originals.mp3?dl=1\"><span>Download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/01\/468574494\/originals-how-to-spot-one-how-to-be-one?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business#\"><span>Embed<\/span><\/a>\n<div><label>Embed<\/label> <button>Close embed overlay<\/button> <strong><code><strong>&lt;<\/b>iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/468574494\/468577159\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"&gt;<\/strong><\/code><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of <em>Originals<\/em>. <strong>Michael Kamber\/Adam Grant<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Michael Kamber\/Adam Grant<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Consider this: Frank Lloyd Wright was a procrastinator. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are afraid of taking risks. Most of Beethoven&#8217;s compositions are pretty awful. Conventional wisdom suggests these originals were successful <em>despite<\/em> their hemming and hawing, their hedging, and their many flops. But Wharton professor Adam Grant says these defects are actually fundamental to originality. In his new book, <em>Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World<\/em>, Adam investigates who comes up with great ideas, how, and what we can do to have more of them. This week, we bring you our conversation with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak. To subscribe to our newsletter, click <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.us12.list-manage1.com\/subscribe?u=2705d0ba38389c42d1f9ca429&amp;id=90de79e158\">here<\/a>. 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