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Think from KERA

How to get better at self-improvement

Think from KERA

KERA

Kera, 071003, Think, Society & Culture, Krysboyd

4.7911 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The difference between top performers and the rest of us can often be traced back to an ability to maximize potential. Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss strategies for Average Joe’s to excel. His book is “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things.”

This episode originally aired, November 13th 2023.

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0:00.0

Have you heard about OMG? Yes. This is a website the New York Times wirecutter featured as one of their most popular gifts. And for good reason, it presents new findings from the largest ever research study into women's pleasure and intimacy. In partnership with researchers at Yale and at Indiana University, they asked tens of thousands of women what they

0:21.6

wished they and their partners had discovered sooner. They found the patterns in those

0:26.2

discoveries and all that wisdom and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos,

0:31.6

animations, and how-toes. When you see OMG, yes, you might understand why wirecutter recommended it.

0:38.2

It is warm, honest, and has regular women talking about real experiences.

0:42.7

It's truly eye-opening.

0:44.8

See for yourself at omgyes.com.

0:47.3

That's OMGS.com. Who doesn't love the drama of a Mozart-style young genius showing up masters twice his age in the movie Amadeus and in real life?

1:07.7

Did you try?

1:09.2

Shouldn't it be a bit more?

1:14.0

Or this?

1:15.9

This.

1:17.3

Yes.

1:22.4

Better?

1:23.4

What do you think?

1:27.7

The thing is, I'll just give it to you straight, most of us are not prodigies as children.

1:33.3

Neither was Johann Sebastian Bach, who grew up to be no slouch in the composing department.

1:37.4

But imagine some fancy music school was trying to give slots only to the most promising students.

1:44.1

JSB might have ended up SOL.

1:47.2

What we need is a new way of assessing human potential.

1:51.3

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think.

1:54.0

I'm Chris Boyd.

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