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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 4 mean?
- A Idea-doubt makes people stop making efforts.
- B Idea-doubt makes people stop believing in themselves.
- C Self-doubt is caused by weather.
- D Self-doubt makes people stop making efforts.
- E Self-doubt encourages people to go a long way.
思路引導 VIP
當你在閱讀中遇到作者同時提到兩個對立的概念，且隨後出現「前者 (the former)」或「後者 (the latter)」時，你會用什麼方法快速回溯它所代表的具體對象？此外，如果一個形容詞通常用來描述身體「無法動彈」的狀態，你認為它在描述心理狀態時，會傾向於正面鼓勵還是負面的阻礙呢？
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AI 詳解
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恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的細節！這題的關鍵在於對代名詞指向的判讀，以及對形容詞語意的轉譯能力。在第四段中，作者對比了兩種類型的懷疑：「自我懷疑 (self-doubt)」 與 「點子懷疑 (idea doubt)」。你準確地判斷出題目劃線處的 The former (前者)，指代的就是優先被提到的「自我懷疑」。
語境中的語意轉譯與對比
文中接著使用 paralyzing (令人癱瘓的) 以及 freeze (凍結、僵住) 來形容其影響，這在心理學語境中，生動地描繪了當人陷入自我否定時，會因為恐懼而導致行動力完全受阻、無法繼續嘗試的狀態。你選擇 (D) 選項，將「凍結」解讀為「停止努力」，這正體現了對文本隱喻的正確理解。
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