E164 - Adam Grant: Why you should stop trying to prove yourself and start trying to improve yourself
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Adam Grant is an organisational psychologist, author, professor and host of podcast ‘Work Life’. His work focuses on how people can find motivation and meaning, rethink assumptions and live more creative and generous lives.
In this episode they focus on the best way to deal with criticism and feedback, why we should be fuelling our growth instead of our ego and why Adam’s close circle is made up of ‘disagreeable givers’.
They discuss why our responses are what’s important and truly reflect who we are. Adam has been teaching for over 15 years, he shares what makes a great teacher and how to write in a way that keeps people engaged. Find out the tools Adam uses to get closer to high performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey, this is High Performance, the podcast that reminds you it's |
| 0:06.8 | within your ambition, your purpose, your story are all there. We just help unlock it by turning |
| 0:12.6 | the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. |
| 0:17.6 | So right now, allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to one of the greatest |
| 0:22.0 | academics and thinkers on the planet so that he can be your teacher. Today, this awaits you. |
| 0:30.2 | I think that what stops most of us from achieving high performance or even higher performance |
| 0:34.4 | is that we're more interested in improving ourselves than we are in improving ourselves. |
| 0:38.2 | So we're trying to feed our egos as opposed to fuel our growth. And I think if you have a group of |
| 0:43.6 | people around you, just like an athlete would with a coach, who are solely there to ask how can I |
| 0:50.0 | help you get better? It's really hard not to grow. And I think we should show that work much more |
| 0:55.6 | often. Can I criticize in a way that actually makes you better? One of my favorite experiments |
| 1:01.0 | showed that you could say about 19 words to dramatically increase people's openness to criticism. |
| 1:06.4 | And those 19 words are roughly, I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations |
| 1:10.8 | and I'm confident that you're going to reach them. The everyday flickers of doubt of wondering, |
| 1:16.9 | am I as good as other people think I am? And if you don't have those, you're at risk for arrogance |
| 1:22.6 | or narcissism. If you never doubt whether other people are overestimating you, then you are not |
| 1:30.4 | putting yourself in a position to keep growing and challenging yourself. |
| 1:34.8 | So today we welcome Adam Grant to the high performance podcast. I always kind of hate this bit |
| 1:39.5 | in some ways because how do you sum up someone that's fascinating and interesting as Adam Grant |
| 1:43.6 | in 30 seconds. So basically what you need to know is he's an organizational psychologist. He is |
| 1:50.8 | one of the world's leading experts on how you can find motivation, how you can find meaning in your |
| 1:55.1 | life, rethinking the way that you see the world living a more generous and creative life. And he's |
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