Humans Are Fascinating- Podcast# 670
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Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Cathy and Todd discuss Adam Grant’s research around why humans are fascinating, especially when it comes to parenting and partnership. They also discuss why optimism is essential and the beer-drinking games people play.
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| 0:00.0 | Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Here we go. My name's Todd. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Gabi. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:11.6 | This is podcast number 670. Why listen to Zen Parenting Radio? Because you'll feel outstanding. |
| 0:17.0 | And always remember our motto, which is the best predictor of a child's well-being, |
| 0:21.2 | is a parent's self-understanding. On today's show, we're going to go over a list. I got an email. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm on Adam Grant's email list. Sweetie, who's Adam Grant for those people who don't know who he is? |
| 0:33.5 | He is a researcher of human behavior and a writer. He wrote the book Think Again that came out a year or two ago, and he is a researcher of human behavior and a writer. |
| 0:40.0 | He wrote the book Think Again that came out a year or two ago. |
| 0:41.3 | And he is a professor. |
| 0:43.9 | But I'm trying to remember which school he's at, Yale or Harvard. |
| 0:45.3 | And he's a younger dude, right? |
| 0:47.2 | I think he's younger than us. |
| 0:48.9 | I feel like he's like... Well, he's got kids and stuff. |
| 0:49.9 | For as much as he has done, I am always like, oh, this guy seems young. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. Maybe I'm wrong. |
| 0:54.7 | Who knows? |
| 0:56.6 | I wanted to see where he goes to school. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, he teaches at Wharton School in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:02.6 | Got it. |
| 1:04.1 | So I got an email from, and it's titled, Humans Are Fascinating, and he kind of goes over a handful of different reasons why he thinks humans are |
| 1:11.8 | fascinating we decided we use that as our foundation for uh the podcast you can call the show |
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