Adam Grant Returns

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Adam Grant returns to discuss his new book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. Adam is an organizational psychologist, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and TED speaker. Adam discusses how to open people's minds, the psychology of maximizing and satisficing, and the advantages of imposter syndrome. Adam weighs in on a disagreement between Dax & Monica, explains the dangers of desirability bias, and the different modes of thinking: preacher, prosecutor, and politician. Adam pitches building a competence and character political party while Dax shares one of his self-fulfilling prophecies. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armed Chair Expert Experts on Expert.
0:03.8	I'm Monica Padman and I'm joined by Dax Shepard.
0:07.1	What a stupid name you have, sir.
0:08.9	I like it.
0:10.3	Ow.
0:11.3	Oh my God.
0:12.3	Oh my God. Oh my God. What was that? I don't know. It hurt.
0:17.0	Monica just had a headset injury I think. I heard a loud pop over there and I thought your
0:21.8	vertebrae had come disconnected but no I think it was just
0:25.4	the headphones but it was loud and scary and did your vertebrae break okay
0:31.6	listen if you listen to this show boy you hear us talk ad
0:35.0	nauseum about this guest we just are head over heels in love with him his name is
0:38.4	Adam Grant and he is an organizational psychologist a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Ted Speaker who helps people find meaning and motivation at work.
0:48.6	He also booked probably 20% of our guests in 2020.
0:52.1	He knows every person on Earth and he helps us talk to them.
0:56.4	It's, he's incredible. He really is. He has a new book out and of course it's intriguing and
1:02.0	provocative and fun.
1:04.0	It's called Think Again, the Power of Knowing
1:06.1	What You Don't Know, in which he investigates
1:08.6	how we can embrace the perks of being wrong,
1:11.4	harness the surprising advantage of
1:13.3	imposterous syndrome, bring nuance into political charge conversations,
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