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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 is the best title for this article?
- A The Power of Productivity
- B The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
- C How to Kick the Bad Habit of Procrastination?
- D Do Schools Kill Originality?
- E Why Every Business Needs Original Thinkers?
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試著觀察文章中提到的『拖延習慣』、『進入市場的時機』以及『處理內心恐懼的方式』，這些特徵與我們一般認知中『典型的成功人士』是一樣的嗎？如果這篇文章是在向你介紹這群人的獨特生活方式，你會如何概括這些與眾不同的行為？
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恭喜你精準掌握了文章的核心！你能選出這個答案，代表你成功捕捉到了心理學家 Adam Grant 想要傳達的「反直覺」觀點。這篇文章並非在教導我們如何提高效率，也不是單純討論商業競爭，而是透過重新定義「原創者」（Originals），揭開他們那些看似缺點、實則為成功關鍵的行為模式。
翻轉刻板印象的觀察
文中提到的特點非常迷人且具有顛覆性：例如適度的拖延（moderate procrastination）能提供更多發散思考的時間，或者身為後進者（late-movers）反而更有機會改良現有的點子。這些觀察打破了我們對「成功者必須雷厲風行、絕對自信」的刻板印象。你之所以能答對，關鍵在於成功連結了文中對拖延、懷疑與失敗經驗的「正向轉化」，這些內容環環相扣，共同拼湊出原創者那種「出人意表的習慣」。
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