I don't know about you, but I've been having a lot of trouble keeping my different worlds from colliding these days.

Or maybe the better word is converging, like peas and

mashed potatoes on the dinner plate. In the middle of an investor presentation yesterday,

our 12-year-old son slides into the background like Kramer and Seinfeld saying he's dehydrated.

Can I please get him some water?

Apparently Zoom School does not include instructions on how to operate a faucet.

We tend to have more live video streams going than rooms in our house, so privacy is not so easy to come by. But I guess that's the new normal. Not just for me, but for pretty much everyone.

From Wondery, I'm Rufus Griskum, and this is a special pandemic edition of the next Big Idea.

It's the seventh and final episode

of a series we're calling, R big ideas. We're getting in touch

with last season's guests at other friends of the show and asking them to help us understand

the moment we're in now. Today we're reaching out to Adam Grant, the renowned organizational

psychologist. He's known for being the youngest tenured and for many years the

highest rated professor at Wharton School of Business. He's also the author of the best-selling books,

Give and Take, The Originals,

and option B, which he wrote with Cheryl Sandberg.

It's less widely known that he was an all-American springboard diver

in high school,

a professional magician in college,

and that he's made a hobby of collecting astronauts.

But I'd like to think the accomplishment he's most proud of

is being one of the four founding

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