Link: The surprising habits of original thinkers

It’s a screenwriter who looks at a movie script that can’t get the green light for more than half a century. In every past version, the main character has been an evil queen. But Jennifer Lee starts to question whether that makes sense. She rewrites the first act, reinvents the villain as a tortured hero and Frozen becomes the most successful animated movie ever. So there’s a simple message from this story. When you feel doubt, don’t let it go.

Adam Grant ist Professor an der Wirtschaftsschule an der University of Pennsylvania für solche schönen Dinge wie „prosoziale Motivation, Erfolg, Wirtschaft, Pädagodik, Psychologie, zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen und Ökonomie“. Und studiert „Originals“: Menschen, die neue Ideen haben und sie tatsächlich umsetzen. Darüber spricht er bei TED:

As Aaron Sorkin put it, „You call it procrastinating. I call it thinking.“