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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
- Adam Grant
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
- Adam Grant
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#Car
#Experience
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#People
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
- Adam Grant
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#Mind
#Morning
#Research
#Start
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
- Adam Grant
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#History
#Human
#Intelligence
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
- Adam Grant
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#Game
#Success
Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
- Adam Grant
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
- Adam Grant
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#Future
#Mistake
#Mistakes
#People
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
- Adam Grant
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#Courage
#Love
#Respect
#Trust
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
- Adam Grant
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#Conversation
#Leadership
#Women
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
- Adam Grant
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#Earn
#Leadership
#Positive
Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
- Adam Grant
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#Colleagues
#End
#Trust
#World
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
- Adam Grant
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#Givers
#Perspective
#Relationship
When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.
- Adam Grant
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#Health
#Long
#Medical
#Weather
From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
- Adam Grant
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#Own
#Perspective
#Purpose
#Work
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
- Adam Grant
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#Feedback
#Ownership
#People
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
- Adam Grant
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#Innovation
#Organization
#Voice
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
- Adam Grant
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#Champion
#Change
#Ideas
#World
I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
- Adam Grant
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#I Believe That
#I Believe
#Way
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
- Adam Grant
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#Diversity
#Find
#Real
#Who
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
- Adam Grant
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#Good
#Ideas
#Look
#Way
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
- Adam Grant
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#Happiness
#Impact
#Our
#Success
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
- Adam Grant
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#Believe
#Inside
#World
If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
- Adam Grant
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#Selfish
#Takers
#Want
#Watch
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
- Adam Grant
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#Nice
#People
#Person
#Walk
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
- Adam Grant
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#Procrastination
#Time
#Unexpected
It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
- Adam Grant
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#Life
#Realize
#Thankful
#Tragedy
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
- Adam Grant
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#Higher Education
#Knowledge
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
- Adam Grant
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#Hard
#May
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