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The Jordan Harbinger Show

482: Adam Grant | The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) is Wharton’s top-rated professor, the host of podcast WorkLife with Adam Grant, and the author of three New York Times Best SellersOption B (with Sheryl Sandberg), Originals, and Give and Take. Adam revisits the show to discuss his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know.

What We Discuss with Adam Grant:
  • Why being open to changing your mind is a huge advantage in your personal and professional life -- and not weakness, as your ego is urging you to believe.
  • The criteria by which Amazon's Jeff Bezos makes big decisions quickly while allowing room for a change of mind when new information is revealed.
  • How you can use brainwriting instead of brainstorming to come up with the best ideas from within your organization without losing them to the hazards of dreaded groupthink.
  • Why your network could do with a "disagreeable giver" (or several) to tear your ideas apart and point out the holes in your thinking -- not to bring you down, but to help you improve.
  • How to preface criticism so that other people really hear it (in only 19 words or so) without taking offense.
  • And much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show.

0:02.8

There's an experiment that showed that you can increase

0:06.0

people's openness to negative feedback by between 40 and 320%

0:10.2

depending on the person.

0:11.7

Just by saying about 19 words up front, which are roughly,

0:14.8

I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations

0:17.4

and I'm confident you can reach them.

0:19.1

Immediately changes the relationship.

0:20.8

I am not attacking you.

0:22.1

I'm not judging you.

0:23.2

I'm here trying to coach you and help you get better.

0:25.8

Welcome to the show.

0:30.4

I'm Jordan Harbanger.

0:31.7

On the Jordan Harbanger Show, we decode the stories, secrets,

0:34.7

and skills of the world's most fascinating people.

0:37.0

We have in-depth conversations with people

0:39.0

at the top of their game.

0:40.1

Astronauts, entrepreneurs, spies, and psychologists.

0:43.3

Even the occasional four-star general, former G-Hadi,

0:46.2

or extreme athlete, each episode turns our guests wisdom

0:50.0

into practical advice that you can use to build a deeper

0:53.0

understanding of how the world works and become

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