872: How to Get Unstuck and Break through Any Problem with Adam Alter
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Adam Alter reveals the secret to breaking yourself out of any rut.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) When it pays to lower your standards.
2) The question to ask for better insights.
3) The essential skill to accomplish your goals.
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— ABOUT ADAM —
Adam Alter is a professor of marketing, and the Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He also holds an affiliated professorship in social psychology at NYU’s psychology department. In 2020 he was voted professor of the year by the faculty and student body at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and was among the Poets and Quants 40 Best Professors Under 40 in 2017. Alter is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Drunk Tank Pink and Irresistible.
• Book: Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
• LinkedIn: Adam Alter
• Twitter: @adamleealter
• Website: AdamAlterAuthor.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) by Philip Roth
• TED Talk: Why our screens make us less happy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete McIdas. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 872 with Adam Alter. |
| 0:22.9 | Adam has some fantastic stories that can provide a great dose of inspiration, wisdom, |
| 0:28.1 | but if you're feeling stuck, you've been running in circles, not getting anywhere on a |
| 0:33.2 | key problem, Adam's got some jilts that might just do the trick for you. |
| 0:37.6 | So you'll learn one, when it pays to lower your standards, two, the question to ask for |
| 0:42.0 | better insights, and three, the essential skill to accomplish your goals. |
| 0:46.7 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's that |
| 0:49.2 | we've referenced, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep872. |
| 0:54.8 | If you're at awesomeatyourjob.com, check out some of our goodies such as the gold nugget |
| 0:59.4 | email list, which gives you a summary write-up right to your inbox of the actionable wisdom |
| 1:04.0 | Adam shared as well as unlocking the archive of all 872 of these summary write-ups because |
| 1:10.2 | those are gold nuggets at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:12.8 | Now here's a bit about Adam. |
| 1:14.2 | Adam Alter is a professor of marketing and the Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow |
| 1:17.9 | at New York University Stern School of Business. |
| 1:20.6 | He also holds an affiliated professorship in Social Psychology and NYU Psychology |
| 1:24.7 | Department. |
| 1:25.7 | In 2020, he was voted professor of the year by the faculty and student body at NYU Stern |
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