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🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In most workplaces, criticizing your boss is a great way to lose your job. At Bridgewater Associates, you can be fired for NOT criticizing your boss. We grill founder Ray Dalio and a series of employees to figure out how this kind of radical transparency works in real life -- and how we can all get better at dishing it out (and taking it). This episode is brought to you by Bonobos, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Warby Parker.

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0:00.0	Today we're doing something special on TED Talks Daily, something we're really excited about.
0:04.6	Instead of a TED Talk, you're about to hear the first episode of Ted's new podcast, Work Life with Adam Grant.
0:10.6	We'll take you inside unusual workplaces and explore the ideas we can all use to make work better.
0:16.8	And after the show, subscribe and check out the next episodes wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.4	When I was 26 years old, barely out of grad school, I was asked to come teach a half-day class about motivation.
0:30.7	I was excited for it. And then I found out my audience would be generals and colonels in the U.S. Air Force.
0:38.1	I was way underqualified.
0:40.9	And I wanted to back out, but it was too late.
0:44.0	So I walked in, and I was staring at a room full of people twice my age,
0:48.9	wearing full military garb with all their medals on display.
0:53.0	They had nicknames like Gunner, Striker, and Stealth.
0:58.0	By the end of the first hour, I felt like I was bombing.
1:02.5	And sure enough, in the reviews they wrote after class, they bombed me.
1:07.7	One wrote,
1:08.6	It was more quality information in the audience than on the podium.
1:14.3	Another said, I gained very little from the session, but I trust the instructor did gain useful insight.
1:24.1	It felt like a punch in the stomach, and I couldn't get it out in my head.
1:29.8	So I did what any self-respecting organizational psychologist would do.
1:34.6	I started studying why it's often soul-crushing to receive criticism,
1:39.2	and whether we could actually learn to like it.
1:48.4	Yeah. could actually learn to like it. I'm Adam Grant.
1:50.1	This is Work Life, my TED podcast.
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