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How to Love Criticism | WorkLife with Adam Grant

How to Be a Better Human

TED and PRX

Self-improvement, Education

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What if you could tell your co-workers what you really think of them? At one of the world’s most successful hedge funds, everyone is rated and ranked constantly – in front of everyone. They’ve figured out how to embrace negative feedback, and they swear it’s essential to their success. Adam Grant shows how you can learn to take criticism well – and get better at dishing it out.

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WorkLife's sixth season comes out September 19th.

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective.

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Collective.

0:04.0

Hi everyone, Chris Duffy here.

0:09.0

Here is an episode of another Ted Audio Collective podcast that I think you're going to really enjoy.

0:14.1

It's called Work Life with Adam Grant.

0:16.4

And on the show, organizational psychologist Adam Grant goes inside the minds of truly unusual

0:21.9

people to rethink the way we work, create, and connect with each other.

0:26.0

This is a show that's full of fascinating psychological insights about how we can create real change in our lives.

0:32.0

And Adam is such an interesting interviewer and scholar

0:36.3

and writer and thinker.

0:37.5

I think you're going to really enjoy this show,

0:39.1

and I think you're going to particularly

0:41.0

enjoy this episode of his show. If you do like it, you can find and follow work life with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. Enjoy.

0:50.0

Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of the TED Podcast to WorkLife.

0:54.0

This season, we worked with our sponsor UKG to share amazing stories from their workplace.

0:59.0

Stay tuned for a story from our archives about Brian,

1:02.0

who's taking big strides to promote belonging.

1:06.3

When I was 26 years old, barely out of grad school, I was asked to come teach a half day class about motivation.

1:13.0

I was excited for it.

1:15.0

And then I found out my audience would be generals and colonels in the U.S. Air Force.

1:20.0

I was way underqualified, and I wanted to back out but it was too late.

1:26.0

So I walked in and I was staring at a room full of people twice my age

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