Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

ReThinking

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Society & Culture, Organizational Psychology, Worklife Podcasts, Adam Grant, Rethinking Podcast, Ted Podcast Adam Grant, Ted Talks, Adam Grant Podcasts

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Steve Martin has made an award-winning career out of taking on new identities–from actor and comedian to musician and novelist. Over the years, he’s learned that the best way to find yourself is by imitating your role models. He explores how to do that in a new audiobook, So Many Steves, with his longtime friend Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker writer and author. Steve and Adam join Adam Grant for a riveting discussion about impersonation and authenticity, humor and writing, success and happiness, and valuing the friends you make along the way. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts.

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ReThinking is produced by Cosmic Standard. Our Senior Producer is Jessica Glazer, our Engineer is Aja Simpson, our Technical Director is Jacob Winik, and our Executive Producer is Eliza Smith.

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1:51.7	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
1:53.5	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
1:57.6	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
2:01.6	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
2:08.6	My guests today are Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik. You probably know Steve is one of the true comic
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