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第 43 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 Professor Grant’s conclusion mean?
- A Originals are held back by these qualities.
- B Originals are the lucky few who were born without these qualities.
- C Originals are so talented that their minor imperfections can be overlooked.
- D Originals manage to use these qualities to their own advantage.
- E These qualities are irrelevant to originals’ success.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章最後一段提到的兩種類型：創見者對於「恐懼」與「懷疑」並非完全沒有感覺，甚至失敗次數更多。既然作者提到他們成功是「因為 (because of)」這些負面特質，這代表創見者與這些特質之間，是處於「對抗消除」的關係，還是「共存互惠」的關係呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
這題你能準確判斷出 (D) 選項，代表你對文章中「特質與成功之間的正向關聯」有著非常細膩的掌握，表現得很棒！
特質轉化為優勢的關鍵
Adam Grant 在文章末尾強調，這些被大眾視為負面的特質（如拖延、懷疑、恐懼），在創見者（Originals）身上並非阻礙，反而成了成功的推力。例如，適度的「拖延」提供了發散性思考的空間，而「對點子的懷疑」則轉化為修正與改進的動力。文末的 "because of them" 正是畫龍點睛之筆，說明這些特質並非被「容忍」或「忽略」的存在，而是被創見者有效轉化成了成功的「工具」或「利基」。
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