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Hey everyone, it's Adam. If this is your first time listening to Work Life, don't start here

This is a bonus episode. To get the full Work Life experience start with how to love criticism

Your hidden personality or the creative power of misfits

I know you have some pet peeves. Everyone does.

Mine include the guy in front of me on the airplane who reclines his seat right onto my laptop

The phrase, everything happens for a reason and glitter

Whether it arrives on clothes or holiday cards or presents, it always ends up all over me

I'm pretty sure that in all of human history, no one has ever benefited from glitter

If a giant meteor destroyed the Earth, when the cockroaches died, the glitter would still be floating around

In my Work Life, my biggest pet peeve is management fats

They're the glitter of the working world, sparkly and ubiquitous, but often useless and annoying

Sometimes they're way out of date, like the Myers-Briggs personality tool

Other times, they're fresh but sorely lacking in evidence, like using brain games for hiring

But, fats don't just bug me because they're unhelpful

They can be actively harmful

Take the idea that you have a learning style

You're about to trash that aren't you?

I'm totally gonna trash it

I'm Adam Grant and this is Work Life, my podcast with Ted

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I'm an organizational psychologist. I study how to make work not suck

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