Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
4.8 • 31.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
“Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop.”
That’s what organizational psychologist and podcast host Adam Grant believes, and he offers a new framework on how we can elevate ourselves and others in his latest book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things.
This week on How I Built This Lab, insights on what great entrepreneurs have in common and the steps anyone can take to develop these skills. Plus, redesigning workplace systems to foster greater collaboration, and cultivating untapped potential in the generations to come.
This episode was researched and produced by Carla Esteves, with music by Ramtin Arablouei.
It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderie Plus subscribers can listen to how I built this early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wunderie Plus in the Wunderie App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills? |
| 0:17.0 | I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears, the need to know. |
| 0:24.0 | How do I know? |
| 0:26.0 | Because I'm living with cancer too. |
| 0:29.0 | That's why I joined the Macmillan online community |
| 0:32.0 | and we can help people like you whatever you need to ask. |
| 0:36.6 | To join us search Macmillan online community. |
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| 0:49.0 | Hello, I'm Emily and I'm one of the hosts of Terribly Famous, the show that takes you inside the lives of our biggest celebrities. |
| 0:56.4 | And they don't get much bigger than the man who made Badminton sexy. |
| 1:00.6 | Okay, maybe that's a stretch, but if I say Popstar and Shuttlecocks, you know who I'm talking about. |
| 1:05.6 | No? Short shorts? Free cocktails? Careless whispers? Okay, last one. It's not Andrew Ridgeley. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, that's right, it's stone-cold icon George Michael. |
| 1:17.5 | From teen pop sensation to one of the biggest solo artists on the planet, |
| 1:21.5 | join us for our new series George Michael's fight for freedom. |
| 1:25.6 | From the outside it looks like he has it all, but behind the trademark dark |
| 1:30.6 | sunglasses is a man in turmoil. |
| 1:33.0 | George is trapped in a lie of his own making, |
| 1:36.0 | with a secret he feels would ruin him if the truth ever came out. |
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