Adam Grant || Think Again
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s great to have Adam Grant on the podcast. Adam is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages. His work has been praised by J.J. Abrams, Bill and Melinda Gates, and many others. Grant’s TED talks have been viewed more than 20 million times, and he hosts the chart-topping TED podcast WorkLife with Adam Grant. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, Fortune’s 40 under 40, Oprah’s Super Soul 100, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Adam received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Allison and their three children.
Topics
[4:17] What is rethinking?
[7:02] “Preachers, prosecutors, and politicians”
[8:08] Why we need to cultivate a scientific attitude
[11:48] The path to being effective
[12:17] Linking character and success
[16:10] Adam’s new construct of character
[20:42] The importance of authenticity and integrity
[25:05] The role of consistency in exercising our values
[30:37] The role of integrity in politics
[33:07] The tension between personality and pursuing values
[36:08] “A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing”
[38:32] The trap of cognitive entrenchment
[40:50] The importance of having diverse interests
[41:40] Cognitive underpinnings of thinking again
[42:31] Actively open-minded thinking
[45:53] The benefits of disagreeableness
[51:42] Selfishness as the 6th factor of personality
[57:31] Why “agreeing to disagree” is wrong
[1:00:04] How to destabilize stereotypes
[1:05:25] Psychological safety in universities
[1:09:40] What “good faith” means
[1:11:18] Crossing psychological safety with accountability
[1:12:59] What Scott thinks Adam should rethink
[1:17:26] The importance of benevolence and universalism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, |
| 0:12.0 | and creativity. I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, and in each episode I have a conversation |
| 0:17.4 | with a guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, |
| 0:21.6 | others, and the world of living. Hopefully we will also provide a glimpse into human |
| 0:25.6 | possibility. Thanks for listening, and enjoy the podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | Today it's great to have Adam Grant on the podcast. Adam is an organizational psychologist |
| 0:39.6 | warden, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is the number |
| 0:43.7 | one New York Times bestselling author of four books that have sold millions of copies |
| 0:47.7 | and been translated into 35 languages. His work has been praised by JJ Abrams Bill |
| 0:52.2 | and Linda Gates, among many others. Grant's TED Talks have been viewed more than 20 |
| 0:56.6 | million times, and he hosts the chart-topping TED podcast Work Life with Adam Grant. He's |
| 1:01.3 | been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers, fortunes |
| 1:04.9 | 40 under 40, Oprah's Super Soul 100, and a world economic forum young global leader. |
| 1:10.5 | Adam received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association |
| 1:14.4 | and the National Science Foundation. He was in Philadelphia, woohoo! Go Philly with his |
| 1:19.1 | wife, Allison, and their three children. Adam, so great to have you on the psychology |
| 1:23.2 | podcast again. I'm so glad to be back, Scott. Thank you for the overly generous introduction, |
| 1:28.0 | and especially for building a bridge between all the great research that's done in psychology, |
| 1:33.1 | including by you and the rest of the world, which I feel like 20 years ago, when I was |
| 1:38.9 | an undergrad, reading all these interesting studies that were collecting dust and internal |
| 1:43.5 | articles, if I knew there were going to be people like you out there making sure that |
| 1:47.6 | not only a good research got done, but also that it got shared, I would have been much |
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