358: Adam Grant: A Revolutionary Approach to Success for Non Conformists

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Andrew Ferebee

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🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Adam Grant has been recognized as Wharton's top-rated teacher for five straight years, and as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers and Fortune's 40 under 40. As an organizational psychologist, he studies how we can find motivation and meaning, and lead more generous and creative lives.

Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals and Give and Take.

Adam received a standing ovation for his 2016 TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project on the success of givers and takers, which was the subject of his most recent TED talk. His speaking and consulting clients include Facebook, Google, the NBA, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Disney Pixar, Johnson & Johnson, BCG, Amex, the U.S. Army and Navy, and the World Economic Forum, where he has been honored as a Young Global Leader.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again.
0:20.1	Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. Hey guys, welcome to the show. I'm here with Adam Grant. He's one of
0:49.0	Wharton's top rated professors for five straight years. He is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and
0:55.1	meaning and live more generous and creative lives. He's been recognized as one of the world's
1:00.2	25 most influential management thinkers and fortunes 40 under 40. He's also a New York Times
1:07.1	bestselling author of originals and give and take. And looks like later this year,
1:13.0	he's releasing a new book, Option B, with Cheryl Sandberg from Facebook about resilience.
1:18.5	Adam, quite the intro. Welcome to the show. Thanks, Andrew. Delighted to be here. All right. And
1:24.1	Adam, so we start off every show with the favorite success quote or a saying that you've lived by. So what do you got for us?
1:29.2	Well, the one that always resonates for me is that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
1:35.2	And so where does this come from? And how has this specifically helped you on your journey?
1:40.6	I guess it's sort of the, it's like the summary of what a lot of my research is about.
1:46.0	I think that for years I had students coming into office hours and saying, look, what I'm
1:51.5	trying to do is become as successful as possible so then I can start giving back.
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