{"id":10430,"date":"2016-06-21T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-my-research-on-originals-ive-learned-of\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T23:20:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T23:20:46","slug":"in-my-research-on-originals-ive-learned-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-my-research-on-originals-ive-learned-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In my research on originals, I\u2019ve learned of people who have used dogs\u2019 chew-toys as erasers in a pinch or reimagined rollerblades as ways to tell time. These are minor, isolated examples, but they illustrate a greater force at play,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThe world is full of ordinary objects and ideas that are made extraordinary by people who have the capacity to repurpose and reapply them, MacGyver-style. It often starts with a slight recalibration in perspective followed by a small, but defiant act. It\u2019s the originals who keep pulling on that thread \u2014 they instinctively know that that\u2019s the difference between inspiration and innovation. Don\u2019t you want those people building beside you?<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Values over rules are key for encouraging originality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstround.com\/review\/adam-grant-on-interviewing-to-hire-trailblazers-nonconformists-and-originals\/?ct=t(How_Does_Your_Leadership_Team_Rate_12_3_2015)\">Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/brandondonnelly.com\/post\/146042201828\/come-original\">Brandon Donnelly<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my research on originals, I\u2019ve learned of people who have used dogs\u2019 chew-toys as erasers in a pinch or reimagined rollerblades as ways to tell time. These are minor, isolated examples, but they illustrate a greater force at play,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThe world is full of ordinary objects and ideas that are made extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}