This is Smart People Podcast, a podcast for smart people where we talk to smart people, but not

necessarily done by smart people.

Hello, welcome to Smart People Podcast Reflections.

Chris Tempe here, so glad you decided to tune in and hopefully reflect with me,

depending on when you listen to the last episode. In this episode, I'm going to be reflecting on

my recent conversation with Adam Galinsky, as we talked about, among other things, his new book called Inspire, the Universal

Path for Leading Yourself and Others. Now, as is customary for this format, I'm going to follow

kind of three different chapters in these episodes. So the first one is why I chose this author

or this topic in general.

The second is what it was like to talk to this guest.

You know, a lot of these people have experienced high levels of success or fame or things like that.

And so I'm going to let you know my perspective.

And then third is my takeaways from the episode. So let's start with why I chose

this author and this topic. And I want to start with this, which is you've probably noticed,

I try to steer clear of basic business topics, such as leadership. Like I really don't wanna just cover leadership in general.

I think there's a couple of reasons for this.

One is I do that for my job,

like I do leadership development and executive coaching.

And I do love it, but this is a different outlet.

The second is that space, when it comes to a thought leadership space is not just crowded.

It is like, it's just brutal.

So many people want to write about it just so they can speak about it, just so they can

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