Adam Grant

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The Rest Is Politics: US · The Leadership Mistake Almost Everyone Makes (Adam Grant) · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

But you can't see yourself objectively, right?

You're looking from the inside.

You can't compare yourself apples to apples to other people.

And so if you've got multiple managers, mentors, colleagues who all see the same potential in you, chances are because they're neutral, because they have more distance, they're actually seeing you more objectively than you see yourself.

Yes and yes.

So I think, you know, when it comes to, I think about exceptionalism a lot in terms of original thinking.

And when it comes to generating original ideas, one of the biggest surprises for me as I looked over the evidence is the people who have the most brilliant ideas also have the most horrible ideas.

And it's not because they're just taking random shots.

It's because they have the most ideas, period.

They generate lots of possibilities and with volume comes variety and with variety comes a greater chance at doing something that's new and better than what's existed before.

And a lot of people stop too soon.

You go into a typical brainstorming meeting and somebody will generate three or four ideas and they think they're done because they're not flowing quickly and they think it's supposed to be a Eureka moment.

They think that genius is supposed to be fluid.

And the reality is your first idea is rarely your best idea.

The fact that it was so easy to think of, that it was top of mind, means it's usually pretty obvious.

It's the ideas that come to you when you've taken some time to incubate, when you've gone for a walk, when you've taken a shower, when you're reading something that's outside of your world, or you're talking to somebody you don't usually interact with.

that you're more likely to start looking at things differently.

And so I've actually come to believe that a combination of persistence and procrastination is a recipe for having original ideas and being more innovative.

I think it might have to be because a perfectionist can shoot a thousand holes in every idea.

Whereas somebody who's both willing to procrastinate in terms of waiting for new ideas to come and not pulling the trigger right away, but also persistent in saying, but I want to keep working at this problem is more likely to stumble onto something new.

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