Adam Grant

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221 Quotes

Saat Anda berurusan dengan hubungan yang ambivalen, Anda selalu waspada, bergulat dengan pertanyaan tentang kepercayaan.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

Conformity is dangerous.

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

Perbedaan pendapat berguna bahkan saat mereka salah. Jadi, alih-alih berbicara kepada audiens yang sangat menyenangkan, targetkan saran kepada orang-orang dengan riwayat orisinalitas.

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

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