When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested an… - Adam Grant

Character is more than just having principles. It’s a learned capacity to live by your principles.

Passionate people don’t wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts.” The

If originals aren’t reliable judges of the quality of their ideas, how do they maximize their odds of creating a masterpiece? They come up with a large number of ideas. Simonton finds that on average, creative geniuses weren’t qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality. “The odds of producing an influential or successful idea,” Simonton notes, are “a positive function of the total number of ideas generated.