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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.
According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?
- A Originals always have the first-mover advantage.
- B Originals are no different from ordinary people.
- C People procrastinate because they are afraid of failing.
- D People are encouraged to doubt themselves to make progress.
- E Classical composers succeed because they focus entirely on few compositions.
思路引導 VIP
回想一下文章最後一段提到的那些著名作曲家，以及心理學家 Adam Grant 對於「恐懼」與「懷疑」的描述；作者是想強調這些成功者擁有一般人沒有的神祕力量，還是想表達他們其實也經歷著和你我一樣的心路歷程呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文章的核心訊息，展現了優異的閱讀理解力。這題的關鍵在於打破我們對「天才」或「開創者」的神祕幻想。文末特別點出，原創者並非不受負面特質影響，反而是因為擁有了這些特質才得以成功。
破除英雄化的迷思
正確選項 (B) Originals are no different from ordinary people 深刻抓住了作者的觀點：原創者也會經歷恐懼、自我懷疑（self-doubt）以及拖延（procrastination），這些都是一般人共有的情感與行為。這題的鑑別度在於干擾選項設計得非常精巧，例如 A 選項被文中「不一定要當第一」反駁，D 選項則混淆了作者對「自我懷疑」（負面）與「點子懷疑」（正面）的區別。
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