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A Wharton professor shares 3 science-backed strategies for raising highly creative kids

Rachel GillettFeb 10, 2016, 21:24 IST

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Kelly Sikkema/flickrCreativity can, in part, be taught.

If you want to raise creative kids, you need to teach them to think for themselves.

To do this, Adam Grant, a professor of management at Wharton, author of the new book, "Originals," and father of three, tells Business Insider, you need "to foster an identify that 'I'm somebody who doesn't conform,' that 'I'm somebody who doesn't follow the crowd.'"

According to Grant, parents of highly-creative children think differently about how they approach raising their kids in three important ways: