Adam Grant

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Adam Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology and the host of the TED podcast WorkLife with Adam Grant. Adam visits the armchair expert to discuss overcoming introversion, being a super taster and the difference between givers and takers. Dax debates Adam on his latest Atlantic article and Adam talks about the importance of criticism. The two talk about growing up in Michigan, the necessity of tenure and how genius is often a result of quantity not quality. 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 to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm your resident expert
0:05.6	Monica Padman and I'm your non resident expert tax shepherd. Today we have somebody that we've talked about so much on this show and we had the deep, deep pleasure
0:16.8	to sit down and meet him.
0:18.8	Adam Grant.
0:19.8	You've heard us talk about Adam a bunch of times on here.
0:22.0	He's an American psychologist and an
0:23.2	author who's currently a professor at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania,
0:27.5	specializing in organizational psychology. He's so fascinating, he's such an interesting way that he looks at the world and he's written a couple of books
0:36.5	Originals how non-conformists move the world and give and take why helping others drives our success now that's the thing that we really got
0:43.8	infected with. Oh yeah lots of things but yeah we talk about that a good bit you're
0:48.0	a taker. Yeah no he said I was a giver even though you tried to prove to him.
0:52.3	Well I don't want to ruin it.
0:53.2	Let's not ruin it. Okay. Yeah.
0:54.9	Foreshadowing. Let's just say that he evaluates our giving and taking status.
0:58.9	Truly a beautiful guy. So excited that we met him and he's opened the door to all these other
1:04.0	interesting people that we love. He's been so great. He truly is a giver.
1:08.8	He's the givious giver there is. Also he's got a new children's book that I've read multiple times to my kids
1:14.0	it's out legitimately an awesome children's book called the gift inside the box so
1:18.7	please enjoy Adam Grant
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1:36.0	He's an I'm changed Adam Grant welcome to armchair expert.
1:47.0	Adam Grant welcome to armchair expert.
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