How To Pitch Your Best Ideas | WorkLife with Adam Grant
How to Be a Better Human
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4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Great pitches can seem like genius or magic. But you don’t have to be a great salesperson to give a great pitch. Whether you’re floating an idea at a team meeting, looking for investors for your startup, or applying for your next job, life is full of pitching moments. In this episode, we bust myths about what it takes to drum up excitement–and share insights from Hollywood and Silicon Valley on ways to improve your chances of getting your audience on board. This is an episode of WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective. To hear more episodes on the science of making work not suck, follow WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. For the full transcript of this episode, visit go.ted.com/WL44.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. are hard at work on the next season of how to be a better human and I am so excited that we're |
| 0:14.7 | going to be back weekly starting on June 27th. That is just around the corner. In the meantime though, here is an episode of another Ted Audio Collective podcast that I think you're going to really enjoy. |
| 0:26.4 | It's a show called Work Life. And on the show, organizational psychologist Adam Grant |
| 0:31.4 | goes inside the minds of truly unusual people to rethink the way that we work, create, and connect with each other. |
| 0:38.6 | This is a show that's full of fascinating psychological insights about how we can create real change in our lives. |
| 0:44.4 | And Adam is such an interesting interviewer and scholar and writer and thinker. |
| 0:50.0 | I think you're going to really enjoy this show and I think you're going to particularly enjoy this episode. |
| 0:54.8 | If you do like it, you can find and follow work life with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. |
| 1:00.3 | Enjoy. |
| 1:01.5 | Dear Adam, I have a great investment. Enjoy. But here's why you should endorse my book. |
| 1:13.2 | Is your team hiring? |
| 1:14.6 | Because I'd be a great fit. |
| 1:17.1 | Every day I get dozens of pitches. |
| 1:19.8 | Some come from strangers around the world. |
| 1:22.2 | Others from people I know. |
| 1:24.5 | We'd love for you to come speak to our company. |
| 1:26.8 | Can you fix our toxic culture? |
| 1:28.6 | You should really consider being my mentor. |
| 1:31.3 | Will you make me breakfast daddy? |
| 1:33.0 | And let's just say some are stronger than others. |
| 1:40.7 | We all give pitches at work. When you give a speech, you're pitching a vision. |
| 1:45.0 | When you make a suggestion in a meeting, you're pitching an idea. |
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