The art of failure with David Duchovny

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

David Duchovny knows a lot about success — he’s a Golden Globe-winning actor who has had iconic roles from The X-Files to Californication. But as a literature PhD dropout turned director turned songwriter and novelist, David is more interested in failure and what it can teach us. Adam and David discuss the value of falling short of our goals, the perils of success, and whether nice people really finish last. David’s new podcast Fail Better is out now. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective. Stay updated on Everything Business on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by
0:14.3	Columbia Business School Professor Modupe Akenola. Every week she'll introduce
0:18.9	you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions like,
0:23.2	how do four day work week's work?
0:25.2	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.6	Get some surprising answers on Ted Business
0:30.0	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:33.0	We got a as a culture and as a country,
0:35.4	accept our elves and grow from our elves.
0:39.3	And call me a loser and I'll say thank you.
0:46.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:48.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick with the TED
0:52.2	audio collective. I'm an organizational psychology. on the science of what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective.
0:53.6	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:58.2	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
1:01.0	My guest today is David Dukovny. You probably know him best
1:07.1	as an actor. He won Golden Globes for his starring roles in The X-files in
1:11.3	Californication and had iconic appearances in Zoolander
1:14.8	and the Chair. But he's also a best-selling author of four novels and a screenwriter,
1:19.2	director, and singer-songwriter. And he's been the subject of a song, an unusually catchy one, by Bree Sharp.
1:26.0	I hold it in as best that can.
1:30.0	I know I'm just another fan, but I can't help feeling I could love this secret agent man.
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