# The surprising habits of original thinkers

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2016
- Speaker: Adam Grant
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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."

## Lectures

1. [The surprising habits of original thinkers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers/fb34f89c5cd4), 16 min (TED's player)