Expert: Helping People Step Outside Their Personal and Cultural Comfort Zones, with Andy Molinsky
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Andy Molinsky, professor of international management and psychology at Brandeis University and author, knows that stepping outside of one's comfort zone, both personally and culturally, is one of the hardest things people have to do. "But, you are probably going to have to, if you want to grow, learn, develop—to achieve your goals." That is what his work is about: helping people understand the challenges, what holds them back, how they might be avoiding it, and what they can do to be more successful.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.7 | Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:27.5 | On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys. |
| 0:38.3 | In honor of the four-year anniversary of our podcast, over the next several weeks, |
| 0:43.1 | we will be sharing with you the most popular interviews from our first 777 shows. |
| 0:49.3 | We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests soon. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Andy Malinsky. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome, Andy. |
| 1:00.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:01.9 | It's a pleasure to have you on the show. |
| 1:04.3 | Andy Malinski is a professor of international management and psychology at Brandeis University in |
| 1:10.3 | Boston and the author of two popular |
| 1:12.6 | business books, Global Dexterity and Reach, which was just published this year. He also writes |
| 1:18.9 | regularly for Harvard Business Review, Inc.com, and psychology today. Today's topic is a fascinating |
| 1:25.6 | one, in my opinion, helping people step outside their personal and cultural comfort zones, which is one of the hardest things that any human being has to do, right? |
| 1:34.7 | So take the stage and lay the groundwork for this chat. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, so it is one of the hardest things that people have to do, but I certainly don't want people to come away from this discussion |
| 1:45.2 | thinking, oh my gosh, I have to step outside by personal cultural comfort zone in every situation. |
| 1:49.5 | And that's definitely not going to be the message here. But the message is that, you know, |
| 1:55.1 | if you do want to grow and learn and develop, and this happens oftentimes at key inflection |
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