Adam Grant on the Science of Potential and Achievement
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
One of our most frequent and popular guests talks about how to develop the character skills to discover your hidden potential.
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, hisTED talks have been viewed more than 30 million times, and he hosts the hit podcastRe:Thinking. His viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021. He has been recognized as one of the world's ten most influential management thinkers.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why character skills are so important and how to develop them
- What we learn from seeking discomfort
- The concept of scaffolding as a way to overcome obstacles
- The value of acceptable mistakes
- And How to see the hidden potential in others and champion them
- Take Adam's Quiz: Which skill could unlock your potential?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:21.3 | It is a central question for any ambitious person. |
| 0:24.5 | How do you reach your full potential? |
| 0:26.7 | How do you achieve what you want to achieve? |
| 0:29.1 | It's also a central question for any leader, or at least it ought to be. |
| 0:32.4 | How do you make sure the people on your team reach their full potential? |
| 0:37.2 | Today, we've got one of our most frequent and popular guests on this show. |
| 0:41.4 | Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and a professor at Wharton. |
| 0:46.1 | He's written a whole string of best-selling books, including Give and Take, Think Again, |
| 0:49.8 | and Originals. |
| 0:50.9 | His latest is called Hidden Potential, the Science of Achieving Greater Things. |
| 0:56.0 | This dude is prolific. |
| 0:57.7 | In this conversation, we talk about why character skills, sometimes derided as soft skills, |
| 1:02.7 | are so important and how to develop them. |
| 1:05.4 | What we learn from seeking discomfort, why we should ask for advice rather than feedback, |
| 1:10.6 | the concept of scaffolding as a way to overcome obstacles, the value of acceptable mistakes, |
| 1:16.4 | how to use a rating system to gain better feedback, and how to see the hidden potential in |
| 1:21.0 | others. |
| 1:22.0 | Frankly, a weak spot for me. |
| 1:25.8 | What's better than finding quality candidates? |
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