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Greene actively avoids reading Malcolm Gladwell to preserve his own originality.
“He's a great writer, but I try not to read his books because I don't want to be covering or overlapping or being inspired by what's already out there. I want to hit something new. I want to be original. I want to say something that comes from my brain.”
Greene was fired from a television research job for outshining his superiors.
“Law number one of the book is never outshine the master, and I probably violated that law maybe three or four times prior to writing the book where I'd be the researcher on a television show and I was so good at it that everybody hated me. I was like, you know…”