How To Change Minds (Adam Grant)

3 Things (with Ric Elias)

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Ric Elias, Red Ventures, Society & Culture, Motivation, Inspiration, Self-improvement, Leadership, Business, Education, Careers

4.9 • 165 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who’s been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, helping people find meaning and motivation at work.

In this episode, Adam discusses how to train your mind to pivot faster, how to have more productive debates and disagreements, and how the pandemic will continue to shape the future of work.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Three Things. Today we've got a conversation with Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist who's been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers.
0:11.5	His new book, Think Again, The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, is about questioning assumptions, viewing life as a series of experiments, and training your mind to be more open.
0:20.1	He also shares the secret to reasoning with unreasonable people training your mind to be more open. He also shares the secret
0:21.2	to reasoning with unreasonable people or how to disagree more productively. This is three things
0:27.4	with Adam Grant. Adam, great to have you. I can't imagine a more important time for the work you do.
0:36.4	How are you? How are you?
0:38.1	You know, I appreciate that.
0:40.1	I'm also thinking, I feel like I could have done more good if I got into something related
0:44.4	to immunology or anything that could help with COVID.
0:48.0	But I guess this is the next best thing.
0:50.5	I know we're going to talk a lot about your new book Think Again, but let's start a little bit more
0:55.4	personal. How have you been? How is your wife? How are your kids doing? Thank you for asking.
1:00.5	It's been, I mean, I think like for everyone else, it's been a year that's a bit of a roller
1:05.6	coaster ride. I've been a big advocate of working from home for a long time or at least giving people the flexibility to do that.
1:13.6	I had never tried doing that while three kids were going through online school.
1:17.6	That's been a trip, but overall I think we're very lucky and it's been a pretty good year all things considered.
1:23.6	How about you?
1:25.6	It's been decent. I have two seniors in high school, so I've kind of felt
1:29.9	bad for them. I think senior year in high school is such a good memory year and marking year,
1:36.0	but they're ready to go to college, and I'm pretty optimistic right now about the months to come.
1:40.4	How about you? I'm starting to feel optimistic to you. It's looking like good news is on the horizon.
1:46.0	You know, this pandemic in many ways has been a bit of a sabbatical from our lifestyles, not from
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