This is episode number one thousand sixty six with number one New York Times best-selling author Adam Grant.

The advice that we normally get is to practice what we preach. I think that's backward. Finally we went back and forth for about half an hour and Jamie said you're a logic bully.

Embarrassingly I got really frustrated and I said well I've never seen a group of smart people act so dumb.

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Author Steven are Covey once said strength lies and differences not in similarities and Steve Jobs said don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Today's guest is number one New York Times best-selling author Adam Grant who is an organizational psychologist at Wharton. Author of four books that have sold millions of copies and host of the chart topping Ted Podcast Work Life.

And Adam's TED Talks have been viewed more than 20 million times and he has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers, fortunes 40 under 40, Oprah's Super Soul 100 and a world economic forum young global leader and received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the Americans Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation.

And in this episode we dive in and discuss why we need to create rules for disagreements and frame a conversation first the reason why humans need to influence others, how to improve your mental flexibility, why we need to embrace people who have different beliefs than us this is so important, how to find and develop our core values at any stage of life, the importance of diversifying our identity,

the difference between imposter syndrome and imposter thoughts, why you need a culture in your business and so much more this is going to be a big one.

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Okay, in just a moment, the one and only Adam Grant.

Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatness podcast. Very excited about our guest. My man, Adam Grant is in the house. He's the author of the new book called Think Again, the Power of Knowing, What You Don't Know.

And Adam, this is the second time you've been on the show and I have to ask you an important question to get started.

And that is why is it so hard for people to let go of beliefs that are no longer supporting them in their happiness and in their life?

Well, Lewis, it's great to be back here. Thank you for having me. That is a complicated question. So I think this is a complicated answer.

I think the problem that a lot of us run into is we end up thinking too often like preachers or prosecutors. My colleague Phil Teltlach wrote a paper almost 20 years ago where he said that look, a lot of us have never worked as preachers or prosecutors, but we still spend a lot of time thinking and talking like them.

You know, kind of either convinced that we're right or that the other person is wrong. And I think those ways of thinking and talking are familiar and comfortable for a lot of us because they make the world more predictable. They make us feel more certain.

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