Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo.

Adam Grant and I go back a long way. He's an organizational psychologist who studies how to make work not suck as he puts it.

We grew up in the same area of Michigan and Adam has consistently broken the mold by outworking,

out producing and out shining almost everyone in our age group which I think is great. He's written a bunch of books.

He's like one of these all-star professors is really a great thinker of our time and it's kind of cool that he was just like this youngest tenured professor ever at Wharton Business School.

Kind of a big deal. He was tenured at 28 instead of you know like 40 something. That is incredible. And whenever I talk to Adam,

I'm always impressed by his ability to take a freakonomics style look at the workplace and to do so in a way that us Gen X slash millennial types can actually pay attention to and wrap our heads around.

Today on the show why we probably don't know ourselves as well as we think we do. In fact, it's not just an absence of knowledge about ourselves,

but there's a near certainty that we actually believe the things about ourselves that are patently false.

Whether it's trying to land a job or to impress a date, we spend a staggering amount of time making claims about ourselves.

And it makes sense right? You're the only person on earth who has direct knowledge of every thought feeling an experience that you've ever had.

So who could possibly know you better than you? Sometimes though that direct knowledge is what causes the problem we're talking about here in the first place.

Think of it like owning a car just because you've driven it for years. Doesn't mean you can pinpoint why and when the engine broke down.

And that's kind of what we're going to delve into here with Adam Grant. We've got some drills and exercises for you to get better self awareness and help others do the same,

which I think it's just a really interesting and a little bit of a scary way to do that. So I really enjoyed this episode, the time flew by.

And if you want to know how I managed to keep people like Adam Grant on speed dial and have this great network, it's all about systems.

It's all about tiny habits. I actually just taught a bunch of this to some intelligence agencies, some espionage types.

So even if you're already really good at networking, which a lot of you have been saying you are, there's going to be some stuff in here.

Unless you are already a client-destined service MI6 type, which you're not. So check out our level one course.

It's free over at jordanharbinger.com slash level one and get a nice taste of that. It's the stuff I wish I had for the last 15 years.

All right, here's Adam Grant. Shall we dive into this? I read the article. The podcast is really interesting.

And so you only did like a handful of those. Is that kind of the deal with that?

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