My job is morale, period.

My job is not to come in and make the strongest creative decisions.

We have writers for that.

We have a showrunner.

The prop department people know what they're doing.

My job is morale.

Every day, all day.

Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.

Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast with Ted on The Science of What Makes

Us Tick.

I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating

people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.

Kristen Bell is an actor, producer, and philanthropist.

She currently stars in and executive producers the hit show, Nobody Wants This.

Kristen and I became friends thanks to her husband, Dax Shepard,

and she's taught me a lot about psychology.

She and I just did a live conversation on stage at Better Up Lift Conference in San Francisco,

and it was a blast.

We talk about how she's learning to overcome her people-pleasing tendencies and stop

internalizing other people's emotions.

She also makes the case that compliments are underrated, opens up about her strategies

for dealing with envy, and offers a surprising theory of why we over-explain things.

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