Adam Grant
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Sep 11, 2026
StephenGUEST
Anyway, there's a there's a flaw.
StephenGUEST
I read about it first in Adam Grant's book called Think Again.
StephenGUEST
But there's this concept that we have so much mental power.
StephenGUEST
We have so much mental power.
Garrett SalpeterHOST
And there's really some fascinating examples.
Garrett SalpeterHOST
So these are from Ellen Langer and her students, some of whom have become famous scientists in their own right, including Alia Crum, including Adam Grant.
Garrett SalpeterHOST
They've gone on to have wonderful careers after being students of hers in her lab at Harvard.
Garrett SalpeterHOST
So she's probably most famous for the counterclockwise study.
David EpsteinGUEST
I think that's...
David EpsteinGUEST
I'm paraphrasing something that, that Adam Grant has said.
David EpsteinGUEST
But it's so true that the change, i- in many cases with technological disruption, the change management is the hard part, and I think that's totally true with AI too, right? I think one of the reasons...
David EpsteinGUEST
I've spent a lot of time with one company over the last year and a half that helps other companies implement AI, and what's become apparent to me is that one of the reasons why we're seeing, despite this incredibly unprecedented rate of adoption, that some of the productivity numbers are not keeping up, is that we're often doing a poor job of actually integrating it into the known work streams and caring about that and thinking about that.
Shantae CofieldHOST
So this episode inspired, was inspired by a podcast episode that Lex was listening to.
Shantae CofieldHOST
It's like, I believe it was Adam Grant and Brene Brown's podcast.
Shantae CofieldHOST
I didn't listen to the episode, but she did, and she liked it, and so I'm not going to link it, but I trust you to be able to find it.
Shantae CofieldHOST
Have Claude help you.
Peter BerridgeGUEST
And So as I went on this journey around positive psychology, it took me into the world of some of the greatest researchers out there.
Peter BerridgeGUEST
And so I had the opportunity to study with individuals like Marty Seligman and Jonathan Haidt and Adam Grant and Angela Duckworth and David Cooper Ryder, Ed Diener, George Valiant.
Peter BerridgeGUEST
going through the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at Penn.
Peter BerridgeGUEST
And in that, what I realized was that so much more had been happening in the field of research that really wasn't being utilized in the field of human resources or even coaching.
Natasha CookGUEST
A little bit of imposter syndrome is a good thing because that little bit of critical thinking and self-doubt also stru- like keeps you honest.
Natasha CookGUEST
And I know Adam Grant, he's one that, who is a thought leader and an organizational psychologist at Wharton, and some of his learnings I resonate with.
Natasha CookGUEST
Because it's the ignorant and the arrogant who push through and think they know everything without realizing there's some things they don't know that makes bad leaders.
Natasha CookGUEST
I think we have a few of them on the planet.
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Lara NersessianHOST
Hmm.
Natasha CookGUEST
Minimizing the power of language.
Natasha CookGUEST
This is where I think people like Brene Brown and Adam Grant are exceptional at, right? And they were really good tools for me as well.
Natasha CookGUEST
So I was like, yeah, don't, don't minimize the feeling.
Mike PescaHOST
This, the experience you had, you're a man of science.
Mike PescaHOST
You have some connection to the publishing industry, and people like Kara Swisher and Adam Grant will help you out.
Mike PescaHOST
But mostly, I think the average person has no defenses against this.
Mike PescaHOST
And so you would see, you, you realize why, inundated as they are by a great story about how regular medicine isn't up to the task, you have figures like Casey Means, who quit med school at the last minute and subscribes with her brother to a lot of, I'd say, outlandish theories, and now she's poised where she's surgeon general.
Andrew MayHOST
So he went searching for the people who were good at it.
Andrew MayHOST
Oxford negotiators, Esther Perel, Adam Grant.
Andrew MayHOST
He trained as a nationally accredited mediator.
Andrew MayHOST
He sat down with Harvard Business Review's contributing editor on conflict.
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Tim DugganGUEST
So I speak to them.
Tim DugganGUEST
But for my previous book, which was called Work Backwards, and it was about how to think about life and work together.
Tim DugganGUEST
Adam Grant, the author, was someone who has done a lot of work in this space, a lot of work on meaningful work.
Tim DugganGUEST
And I emailed him a couple of times and he wrote back and he said, look, I'm too busy to chat, but here's a bunch of research papers, which I think you'll find interesting.
Stuart PaapHOST
I don't know who coined feedforward.
Stuart PaapHOST
I've, I've seen it from Adam Grant at Wharton.
Stuart PaapHOST
I don't know if- ... him or, or it came from someone else, but the difference between sort of evaluating what someone did in the past versus what they can do going forward.
Stuart PaapHOST
Do you have a perspective on, you know, feedback or feedforward or just-- I guess what I look at it is, how do you get information that's truly useful, beneficial, is additive, and does not sort of, you know, destroy relationships or trust? I mean, t-to me, that is the ultimate goal of feedback, is you want transparency, you wanna grow, you wanna learn, but you also wanna keep your connections and keep rapport.
Amanda SchneiderGUEST
Right.
Amanda SchneiderGUEST
So so I think, you know, Adam Grant also wrote this new book, Rethinking.
Amanda SchneiderGUEST
One of the biggest challenges of our era is rethinking and unlearning faster than our competitors.
Amanda SchneiderGUEST
Some of these things that we've always believed to be true because holding on to them is what holds us back more than the lack of new ideas.
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