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Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers | TED Talk | TED.com
Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers | TED Talk | TED.com
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."
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Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers | TED Talk | TED.com
Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves "Adam I" and "Adam II.") Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?
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Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
The Fallen of World War II on Vimeo
The Fallen of World War II on Vimeo
For the interactive version, ticket payments, and more: http://fallen.io An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers to other wars in history, including trends in recent conflicts. Written, directed, coded, narrated by https://twitter.com/neilhalloran Sound and music by https://twitter.com/Dolhaz
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The Fallen of World War II on Vimeo