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'Shapers' are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing…The greatest shapers don’t stop at introducing originality into the world. They create cultures that unleash originality in others.
Adam Grant, Originals, How Non-Conformists Move the World
Cantering Through Cant (22)
Cantering Through Cant (22) - how shit sack began life as a pejorative term for non-conformists
Comparing someone to the results of a particular bodily function is a popular way of expressing disapproval of someone and was no less so in Francis Grose’s day, as we can see from his A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785). A shit sack means a “dastardly fellow”, as it does today, although we usually invert the term and insert a preposition. Intriguingly, it was also a term for a…
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Be Original.
Originality pays.
Trying to be like someone else is a lot of hard work and it sucks.
You will never be like the original. Side by side the original, you are fake. People avoid fakes.
They go for the originals. They go for non-conformists who are bold enough to challenge the status quo and move the world.
They seek out those who ask tough questions, ‘Why is it so difficult?”, “Why hasn’t someone…
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Be Original.
Originality pays.
Trying to be like someone else is a lot of hard work and it sucks.
You will never be like the original. Side by side the original, you are fake. People avoid fakes.
They go for the originals. They go for non-conformists who are bold enough to challenge the status quo and move the world.
They seek out those who ask tough questions, ‘Why is it so difficult?”, “Why hasn’t someone…
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The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.
Adam Grant, Originals
Originals - Adam Grant
Ebury Publishing - February 2017
Wharton management professor and New York Times columnist Adam Grant discusses his new book Originals, and the world-changing ways of thinking and acting shared by history’s most disruptive, productive thinkers.