Tapping Into Your Kid's Hidden Potential

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Dr. Becky

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Organizational psychologist and author, Adam Grant, joins Dr. Becky to discuss what potential really is and how to bring it out in your kid.

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Becky and this is good inside.
0:05.8	When I think about potential what I'm interested in is your capacity to grow.
0:13.0	Yes.
0:14.0	And that depends much more on your motivation
0:17.2	and the opportunities you have to learn
0:19.3	than it does on your raw talent.
0:21.9	Whether you think about that as intelligence or athletic ability or being a musical
0:27.3	prodigy, like those starting points do not determine the distance you can travel.
0:34.0	And I think that the parents think about this often backward, unfortunately.
0:41.0	Today I have Adam Grant on the podcast.
0:43.0	Adam is an organizational psychologist.
0:46.0	He's a best-selling author, and on a personal note, he's a friend and my TED Talk mentor.
0:52.0	We talk all about the topic of potential.
0:56.3	What is potential?
0:58.1	Is potential someone's ability?
1:00.3	Do you notice potential when you see your kid do something amazing?
1:04.0	Or have we been thinking about potential in totally the wrong way?
1:09.0	I promise you in my discussion with Adam,
1:12.0	we'll leave you with a new perspective
1:14.3	about what potential really is and how to bring it out in your kid.
1:18.6	More after this. thing on our list. I get it. I love anything that makes caring for my family and myself
1:35.5	easier including a multivitamin I can trust. Enter ritual. They're essential for
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