How to Deal with Assholes

the goop podcast

Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

“For better or worse, I’m the asshole guy,” Robert Sutton once told us. Sutton is a professor at Stanford and the author of The Asshole Survival Guide. Of course, his work encompasses a lot more. Sutton studies organizational change, leadership, innovation, workplace dynamics, friction. Today, we’re talking a lot about assholes though: What makes someone act like one? How can we identify the tendencies in others and ourselves? How do you get rid of assholes in your office and personal life? And when you can’t, what are the best coping strategies for dealing with one? (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow.
0:05.8	Thanks for tuning in to the Goop Podcast.
0:08.4	Every week, Goop's Chief Content Officer, Elise Lunin, will be sitting down with provocative
0:13.6	thinkers, industry disruptors, and culture changers.
0:17.4	All take turns interviewing barrier breaking guests as we talk about shifting old paradigms
0:22.0	and starting new conversations.
0:24.0	Elise's guest today is Bob Sutton.
0:27.0	Bob is a professor at Stanford, and the author of brilliant books like The No Asshole Rule
0:32.5	and The Asshole Survival Guide, Bob once told us, for better or worse, I'm the asshole
0:37.8	guy.
0:39.0	But of course, his work encompasses a lot more.
0:42.1	Bob studies organizational change, leadership, innovation, and workplace dynamics.
0:48.0	He examines friction.
0:49.4	Why organizations sometimes make the right things too hard to do and the wrong things
0:54.2	too easy and what we can do about it?
0:57.4	If you're having a hard time navigating office dynamics, or even if you're just in the
1:01.6	middle of an unpleasant encounter with someone in your life, you're going to get a lot
1:05.4	from hearing Bob talk today.
1:07.1	This straight out of the research on self-awareness is we can't...
1:11.9	I would be very wary of one's own opinion of oneself, that having people in our life
1:16.8	who can tell us the truth and we can listen to is one of the most precious things.
1:24.8	Okay, time for today's chat.
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