Best of Design Matters: Adam Grant

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In an illuminating and cerebral discussion, Adam Grant discusses his new book “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know”—and the value of checking in and checking up on yourself.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.7	The new season of Design Matters with Debbie Milman starts in April.
0:11.9	The episode you're about to listen to originally dropped in February of 2021.
0:17.2	It requires a lot of energy and effort to change your mind.
0:20.7	It also often requires admitting that you were wrong, which then calls into question,
0:25.7	okay, do I have good judgment?
0:27.2	Am I an intelligent person?
0:28.9	Those are questions we don't like to ask about ourselves.
0:31.4	And yet, I would so much rather find out that I was wrong so that now I can get closer
0:36.4	to right than just continue to be wrong.
0:43.2	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
0:50.1	For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
0:54.3	what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working
0:58.9	on.
0:59.9	On this episode, Debbie talks with organizational psychologist Adam Grant about rethinking our
1:05.9	assumptions.
1:06.9	If you don't, feel a little bit embarrassed by some of your prior opinions and assumptions,
1:12.5	and you're not growing!
1:16.7	Hey, it's Adam Grant.
1:18.4	The new season of my Ted Podcast's Work Life is out now.
1:22.0	The past few years have been full of changes to how we work.
1:24.9	There's so much more we can rethink about our jobs.
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