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Worklife with Adam Grant

Bonus: Wild Work Advice with Cheryl Strayed

Worklife with Adam Grant

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Management, Worklife Podcast, Worklife With Adam Grant, Work Life Balance, Ted Talks, Podcast About Work Life, Ted Adam Grant, Adam Grant Podcasts, Ted Podcasts, Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, Business

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re constantly seeking advice about our work lives. Which job offer to take. When to quit. Whether to blow the whistle on a bad boss. But so much of the advice we get—and give—turns out to be bad. For some sage advice, Adam sought out master advice-giver Cheryl Strayed, the author of Wild.

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0:00.0

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0:08.7

When I was in middle school, a young writer named Jeff Zazlow who've done across the street.

0:13.0

A few years earlier, Jeff had been assigned to write a story for the Wall Street Journal

0:17.6

about the contest to replace the great advice columnist and landers.

0:23.2

On a lark, Jeff decided to enter the contest himself.

0:27.4

When an interviewer told him he was underqualified, he fired back.

0:31.1

Well, I may be 28, but I have the wisdom of a 29-year-old.

0:37.7

Jeff got the job.

0:39.4

He went on to give sage advice for decades, in his columns and in moving books like the

0:44.1

last lecture with Randy Pousche.

0:48.6

When I was thinking about writing my first book, I was really struggling with how to frame

0:52.0

the idea.

0:53.0

I needed advice, so I called Jeff, and he gave me exactly the guidance I needed.

0:57.4

A few months later, tragedy struck.

1:01.2

Jeff lost his life in a car accident.

1:03.8

He never got to give his last lecture, and he never got to pick a successor to his advice

1:08.8

column.

1:09.8

But I have a strong hunch about who Jeff would have chosen.

1:15.1

The author of the wildly popular advice column, Dear Sugar.

1:18.9

I didn't much read advice columns.

1:21.2

I had never taken a class in psychology or any of those things that you'd think about

1:26.8

people who give advice to, and I'd never even gone through therapy myself.

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