History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they__ long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They__ had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it__nd were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.
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Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they__ long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They__ had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it__nd were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.
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