In Adam Grant’s New York Times bestseller, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World, he focuses on an underappreciated subset of American culture: the trailblazers among us. Why do some people with bold ideas succeed while others fail? What gives some people the courage to constantly go against the grain and buck outdated traditions? Is it possible to become less conformist as we age or are we either born risk-takers or not?
Bolstered by his own research as well as the latest studies of his peers, Grant answers these questions and more, proving that to be groundbreaking, one needn’t necessarily move fast or take enormous risks. As it turns out, true originals might be more afraid than any of us of making the wrong move – they just know how to use their own fear to their advantage.
Adam Grant is a bestselling author and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
