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第 41 題
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Psychologist Adam Grant claims that people with original ideas may look nothing like we expected. Originals are people who stand out and speak up. They not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. Originals drive creativity and changes in the world. Originals are not normally associated with procrastinators. Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity. According to research, people who wait until the last minute to do a task are so busy goofing off that they rarely have new ideas, while people who rush to do everything early tend to be too anxious that they don’t have original thoughts either. There seems to be a sweet spot where originals live – moderate procrastination is found to boost creativity. Moderate procrastination allows more time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, and to make unexpected leaps. Another misconception about originals is that they are always first-movers. Many originals are quick to start but slow to finish. To be original, you don’t have to be first; you just have to be different and better. It’s much easier to improve other’s idea than it is to create something new from scratch. For example, Facebook waited to build a social network years after Myspace and Friendster. On the surface, original people may appear confident, but actually they feel the same fear and doubt that we do. They just manage it differently. Professor Grant thinks that there are two kinds of doubt: self-doubt and idea doubt. The former is paralyzing; it leads people to freeze, but the latter is energizing; it motivates people to test, to experiment, and to refine new ideas. Originals also have fear. They are afraid of failing, but they are even more afraid of failing to try. The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they try the most. Classical composers, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions before they could come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces. Originals procrastinate, they feel fear and doubt, and they have bad ideas. Professor Grant concludes that the reason why originals succeed is not their disregard for those qualities but because of them.
Psychologist Adam Grant claims that people with original ideas may look nothing like we expected. Originals are people who stand out and speak up. They not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. Originals drive creativity and changes in the world. Originals are not normally associated with procrastinators. Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity. According to research, people who wait until the last minute to do a task are so busy goofing off that they rarely have new ideas, while people who rush to do everything early tend to be too anxious that they don’t have original thoughts either. There seems to be a sweet spot where originals live – moderate procrastination is found to boost creativity. Moderate procrastination allows more time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, and to make unexpected leaps. Another misconception about originals is that they are always first-movers. Many originals are quick to start but slow to finish. To be original, you don’t have to be first; you just have to be different and better. It’s much easier to improve other’s idea than it is to create something new from scratch. For example, Facebook waited to build a social network years after Myspace and Friendster. On the surface, original people may appear confident, but actually they feel the same fear and doubt that we do. They just manage it differently. Professor Grant thinks that there are two kinds of doubt: self-doubt and idea doubt. The former is paralyzing; it leads people to freeze, but the latter is energizing; it motivates people to test, to experiment, and to refine new ideas. Originals also have fear. They are afraid of failing, but they are even more afraid of failing to try. The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they try the most. Classical composers, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, had to generate hundreds and hundreds of compositions before they could come up with a much smaller number of masterpieces. Originals procrastinate, they feel fear and doubt, and they have bad ideas. Professor Grant concludes that the reason why originals succeed is not their disregard for those qualities but because of them.
What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
- A People with virtue dislike procrastination.
- B People with creativity are usually procrastinators.
- C Procrastination allows more time to incubate ideas.
- D Productivity and creativity are mutually exclusive.
- E Productivity and creativity go hand in hand.
思路引導 VIP
請試著回想一下，當我們在構思一個新點子時，如果立即動筆完成它，跟將點子先放在腦海中「擱置」一段時間再去處理，這兩者對於點子的深度與多樣性可能會有什麼不同的影響？這種「擱置」的時間，對思維的轉換可能扮演了什麼樣的角色？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
創造力的醞釀與彈性
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中對於「拖延」這項行為的翻轉思考，顯見你對文章脈絡的掌握非常敏銳。這題的正確答案為 (C)，主要核心在於文章第二段提到的 「適度拖延（moderate procrastination）」 並非單純的懶散，而是一個讓大腦進行**發散性思考（divergent ideas）與非線性思考（nonlinear ways）**的過程。這段時間讓想法在潛意識中交織、發酵，也就是選項中提到的「醞釀（incubate）」，進而產生意想不到的躍進。
語意轉換與細節鑑別
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