Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Steve Martin has made an award-winning career out of taking on new identities–from actor and comedian to musician and novelist. Over the years, he’s learned that the best way to find yourself is by imitating your role models. He explores how to do that in a new audiobook, So Many Steves, with his longtime friend Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker writer and author. Steve and Adam join Adam Grant for a riveting discussion about impersonation and authenticity, humor and writing, success and happiness, and valuing the friends you make along the way. For 15% off So Many Steves, use the code ADAMGRANT at go.ted.com/rethinking Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	This show shares insights on work and leadership to help you thrive in your career.
0:11.4	For even more advice, we recommend checking out the podcast Masters of Scale.
0:15.7	In each episode of Masters of Scale, legendary Greylock investor and LinkedIn co-founder
0:20.7	Reed Hoffman joins top minds in business like PepsiCo's Indra Noi, Bridgewater's Radalio,
0:28.5	and Spanx's Sarah Blakely to explore their unconventional paths to scale.
0:33.8	So whether you're a serial entrepreneur or scaling up your own career, check out Masters
0:38.4	of Scale wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:44.8	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick.
0:48.8	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:52.4	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
1:00.8	My guests today are Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik.
1:04.1	You probably know Steve as one of the true comic and creative geniuses of our time.
1:08.5	He went from being America's most popular comedian to one of the world's most beloved
1:12.5	actors.
1:13.5	First in movies like The Jerk and Plains Trains in Automobiles, and now in the TV show
1:18.1	only murders in the building where he and Martin Short play podcast hosts.
1:22.5	Job I know a little bit about.
1:24.7	I've been a super fan of Steve's ever since I was a kid teaching myself to perform magic.
1:29.3	I still laugh every time I think of his classic bit as an incompetent magician, like the
1:34.2	napkin trick where he just sticks his tongue right through a napkin.
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