If we want people to accept our original ideas, we need to speak up about them, then rinse and repeat.

Put a lot of ideas out there and see which ones are praised and adopted by your target audience.

Conceptual innovators formulate a big idea and set out to execute it. Experimental innovators solve problems through trial and error, learning and evolving as they go along. They are at work on a particular problem, but they don’t have a specific solution in mind at the outset. Instead of planning in advance, they figure it out as they go.

We prefer the regular photos of our friends, because that’s how we’re used to seeing them, but we like the inverted photos of ourselves, because that’s how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror. “Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt,” says serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman. “It breeds comfort.”

“focus on those people who believe in you, who have inspired you.” Second, he should look back and remember how his parents inspired him to care about protecting the environment.

represent diverse viewpoints, and have a reputation both for being sensitive to adverse conditions and for speaking their minds.

Along with providing time to generate novel ideas, procrastination has another benefit: it keeps us open to improvisation. When we plan well in advance, we often stick to the structure we’ve created, closing the door to creative possibilities that might spring into our fields of vision.

The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.

Once you take on a managerial role, it’s hard to avoid letting an evaluative mindset creep in to cause false negatives.