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There’s one thing worse than change and that’s the status quo.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

If what you’ve done over the past 5 years hasn’t worked for you, then change what you’re doing or the next 5 years will be the same

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

You have tried to be superior in an ordinary realm. Now you must learn to be ordinary in a superior realm.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

A trail is for one. But one has to make it.

If you can’t change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

We can create our own potential.

There’s no cell type that geniuses have that the rest of us don’t.

Great creators don’t necessarily have the deepest expertise but rather seek out the broadest perspectives.

The odds of producing an influential or successful idea are a positive function of the total number of ideas generated.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Don’t Get Trapped in Your Own Closed Mind

The greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions’

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any.

An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

When we learn something new, we don’t go from ‘wrong’ to ‘right.’ Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less wrong than that, and then to even less wrong than that, and so on. We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection.

Strong beliefs, loosely held.

Don’t Fear Failure or What Others Think
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out.

Becoming original is not the easiest path in the pursuit of happiness, but it leaves us perfectly poised for the happiness of pursuit.

Adam Grant, Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World

It didn’t take guts to follow the crowd, that courage and intelligence lay in being willing to be different.

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

Operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely. That’s the thing people don’t get.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

You see what is possible, but imitators just see what you have done.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

When something goes wrong in your life just yell ‘PLOT TWIST’, and move on.

The success of a culture hinges on whether or not that culture remains endlessly curious. If we are a culture that thinks we know everything we are destined for failure. But if we remain endlessly curious we’re going to be ok.

People believe thinking outside the box takes intelligence and creativity, but it’s mostly about independence. When you simply ignore the box and build your reasoning from scratch, whether you’re brilliant or not, you end up with a unique conclusion—one that may or may not fall within the box.

[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

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A creative solution is the response to a creative problem

Once you have figured out the right question to ask, you are halfway to the right answer.

The deeper the problems found and posed (and in due course solved) the greater the human achievement

Be Different to Be Successful
Only is better than best.

You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different.

The beginning of greatness is to be different, and the beginning of failure is to be the same.

Escape competition through authenticity. When you’re competing with people it’s because you’re copying them. The more authentic you are the less competition you’re going to have.

There’s a benefit to being naive about the norms of the world—deciding from scratch what seems like the right thing to do, instead of just doing what others do.

It’s good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone’s going that way, you go this other way. Yeah, you’re gonna stumble. You’re gonna stumble but you’re also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with.

…the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

You can gauge the limitations of a person’s life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person’s life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

In the quest for happiness, many of us choose to enjoy the world as it is. Originals embrace the uphill battle, striving to make the world what it could be.

Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

It is the mark
of an educated mind
to be able
to entertain a thought
without accepting it.

Our minds are lazier
than our bodies.

Think for yourselves
and let others
enjoy the privilege
to do so, too.

Doubt is not
a pleasant state of mind,
but certainty is absurd.

There are very many people
who read simply
to prevent themselves
from thinking.