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Listen now: Season 5 | WorkLife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

WorkLife with Adam Grant, a TED Audio Collective podcast, is back for a fifth season! Organizational psychologist Adam Grant knows that you spend a quarter of your life at work -- in this show, he talks to some of the world's most unusual professionals to discover how to enjoy it. From breaking down "The Great Resignation" to identifying the work culture that's right for you, this season is packed with actionable insights to help you make work not suck. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to the TED Audio Collective on youtube.com/tedaudiocollective

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Elise Hugh, and we're excited to say that we're back with new episodes of Work Life with Adam Grant, the show that takes you inside the minds of some truly unusual people to reveal the psychology of how we can all lead better, more creative lives at work and beyond.

0:20.4

Here's the trailer. To listen, follow WorkLife

0:22.9

with Adam Grant wherever you're listening to this. Hey, it's Adam Grant. I'm here to tell you

0:31.1

that a new season of Work Life, my podcast with Ted, is out now. Let's face it, even the best

0:37.2

workplaces have had a rough couple years.

0:40.9

In the old days, you would just suck it up and do it. But work life has always been about how to make

0:46.0

work not suck. Today is officially my last day at the toxic corporate job. There has never been a

0:53.7

better time to rethink how we work, lead, and live. Like no one's even at the toxic corporate job. There has never been a better time

0:54.3

to rethink how we work, lead, and live.

0:57.4

Like, no one's even acknowledged

0:58.7

that it's my last day.

1:01.1

So, I'm a little confused.

1:10.0

Burnout. Zoom fatigue, loneliness, languishing,

1:15.4

meh.

1:16.6

These are all topics we've gotten a little too familiar with.

1:20.6

They're also issues we've touched on in past seasons of work life.

1:24.5

As always, our aim is to take a workplace issue you've read about or lived through

1:28.7

and help you think about it in new and creative ways. Take, for example, the so-called

1:35.5

great resignation. Apparently, everyone's quitting their jobs now, right? Once you've made that

1:41.6

decision to leave, there's no guidebook.

1:48.1

And because it's secretive, there's a lot of people that you can't talk to about it.

1:53.0

But what if the great resignation is actually a huge opportunity?

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