The secret to success isn't power — it's status

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Many people believe that success depends on gaining power, but it turns out that status is a more sustainable path to accomplishment and impact. Adam is joined by Survivor star Parvati Shallow, organizational psychologist and author Alison Fragale, and Chynna Clayton — former special assistant to Michelle Obama — to break down the best strategies for gaining and maintaining status at work, building stronger relationships, and getting promoted. Available transcripts for WorkLife can be found at go.ted.com/WLtranscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective. It's Wednesday night, Survivor Time.
0:14.0	Watching Survivor is a family tradition.
0:18.0	We love to analyze the social dynamics of the game
0:21.0	and try to figure out who will gain status and who will get
0:24.5	voted off the island. The best blindside ever was when the Black Widow Brigade
0:28.8	tricked Eric. When was that? Season 16. The Black Widow Brigade is an alliance of four women,
0:34.5	including some of the best ever to play Survivor.
0:37.4	I'm Parvati.
0:38.4	I am the notorious leader of the Black Widow Brigade.
0:42.8	The alliance is so strong that they make it to the final five.
0:46.2	The only man left is Eric.
0:48.2	They're planning to vote him out.
0:49.8	But that day he wins the challenge challenge which gives him immunity.
0:53.0	And the final puzzle that he wins says,
0:58.0	guaranteed a spot in the final four.
1:01.0	So we're all devastated. I'm like no I really wanted this to be a
1:06.4	final four of all women and I was crushed. So we go back to the beach, it's me, Natalie, Amanda, and Suri sitting on a log mourning
1:17.6	the loss of the Women's Alliance.
1:21.1	It's not just the end of the alliance.
1:23.0	Eric is now a strong contender to win the whole season.
1:26.0	So then all of a sudden, Suri, kind of out of nowhere,
1:28.0	I was like, well, what if we could convince him to give up the immunity necklace and all of us look at each other
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