How to Stop Being Wrong with Adam Grant

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon is joined by organizational psychologist and top-rated Wharton professor Adam Grant. Adam is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of five books, most recently Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Sharon and Adam talk about human behavior, the differences between principles and policies, how to humanize those with whom you disagree, why you shouldn’t agree to disagree...and they do, of course, solve all the world’s problems.

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0:00.0	Yay, you're here.
0:03.8	Makes me smile to think about it.
0:06.0	I am excited to share with you a conversation with my friend Adam Grant today.
0:11.5	You probably already know who he is. He probably doesn't need an
0:14.2	introduction. He's written several New York Times bestsellers including Think
0:18.1	Again. He always makes me think and he always makes me laugh. And that is the best combination of a human in my opinion.
0:26.0	So without further ado let's save as much time for the episode as possible.
0:31.0	Enjoy my conversation with Adam Grant. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the
0:37.3	Sharon Says So podcast. Thank you so much for coming.
0:43.0	So excited to chat today.
0:45.0	I have a lot of big questions and I'm hoping you can get them all answered in the next.
0:50.0	I'm not wearing a watch but in the next 20 minutes fix the world please.
0:55.2	Good luck with that Sharon. I think honestly I'm going to have more questions for you than I have answers.
1:01.1	You know we were talking before and I'm like just tell me why are humans the way that they are.
1:06.7	We could answer that question. We could fix a lot of the world's ills.
1:11.4	What do you view as the primary drivers of human behavior? But what
1:15.6	makes us make the decisions that we do because that affects all things, it affects
1:19.9	politics, it affects our public policies.
1:23.0	What do you view as primary drivers of human behavior?
1:26.5	Wow, it's such a big and interesting question.
1:29.4	And it also makes me wonder what question you're really asking here.
1:33.0	What I hear behind the scenes when you say,
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