952: Adam Grant | The Science of Tapping Into Your Hidden Potential
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
When we lack a sense of natural talent, how can we unlock our ability to excel? Find out on this episode with Hidden Potential author Adam Grant!
What We Discuss with Adam Grant:- When you're going through the repetitive steps necessary to learn a new skill, how can you turn the daily grind into a source of daily joy?
- Why learning from an expert mentor is not necessarily the best path to success.
- What are character skills, and why are they more important than cognitive skills or talent when it comes to succeeding?
- How did a pair of hyperpolyglots go from repeatedly failing to retain languages to speaking dozens fluently?
- Why we should seek advice we can act upon rather than feedback that only identifies our cheerleaders and critics.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show is brought to you by Nissan. |
| 0:03.0 | Nissan SUVs have the capabilities to take your adventure to the next level. |
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| 0:09.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:12.0 | If there are multiple people who have high expectations of you, |
| 0:15.0 | it usually means they've recognized some kind of latent ability |
| 0:19.0 | or motivation or room for improvement |
| 0:22.0 | that you just can't recognize yet. |
| 0:24.4 | And so it feels like, well, if other people have high expectations of me, |
| 0:28.2 | but I'm lacking confidence, I'm right, they must be wrong. |
| 0:32.0 | What we forget, though, is that other people are more neutral, |
| 0:34.8 | they're more independent, they're more objective, |
| 0:37.3 | and if multiple people believe in you, |
| 0:39.4 | you should probably believe them. them. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:48.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating |
| 0:51.8 | people and turn their wisdom into |
| 0:53.6 | practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:57.8 | Our mission is to help you become a better informed more critical thinker through |
| 1:00.9 | long-form conversations with a variety of |
| 1:02.9 | amazing folks from spies to CEOs athletes authors thinkers and performers even |
| 1:07.7 | the occasional neuroscientist war correspondent Russian spy or journalist turned poker champion. |
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