Teaching Our Kids Meaning, Generosity, and Originality With Adam Grant
Mom Brain
Gallery Media Group, Hilaria Baldwin & Daphne Oz
3.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It's our first dad on Mom Brain! Adam Grant’s list of accolades goes on and on. He’s Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years. He studies how human beings can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune's 40 under 40. He’s a NY Times best selling author who’s books have been praised by J.J. Abrams, Richard Branson, and Malcolm Gladwell just to name a few. He hosts his own podcast, called WorkLife produced by TED. He earned his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years, and his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Adam is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives and he applied his study of human motivation to children in aspects of giving and generosity and how that correlates to growth and positive development. Together, Adam, Hilaria and Daphne discuss how to implement kindness and giving, as well as self reliance and meaning in our children. Plus, how to discipline and compliment our kids in new ways, how to make our kids feel like they matter, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Being a mom is the toughest job there is and it doesn't come with instructions. |
| 0:05.0 | So it's okay if you don't have all the answers. |
| 0:07.7 | We'll figure it out together. |
| 0:09.4 | This is mom brain with Hilaria Baldwin and Daphneas. All right guys, so today's guest on Mom Brain |
| 0:17.0 | is honestly one of the smartest men I've ever met my entire life. |
| 0:22.0 | His name is Adam Grant. |
| 0:23.0 | Some of you will already have heard of him |
| 0:25.0 | from one of his many New York Times best-selling books |
| 0:27.0 | or hugely subscribed New York Times articles. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, I should just tell you, I met him because he was actually my husband John's |
| 0:35.3 | professor when he was at business school at Wharton and he continues to be one of Wharton's top-rated |
| 0:40.0 | professors and this guy is also like, I don't know, he has to be you know 35 years old he's a child but still |
| 0:46.3 | a genius a genius child he's made his career actually figuring out how human beings can find motivation and meaning in their lives |
| 0:55.2 | and live more generous and creative lives. |
| 0:57.4 | And as a virtue of studying that in adults has become something of an expert on how to create |
| 1:02.3 | that in children. |
| 1:03.2 | So we thought he'd be an amazing guest to talk to you today. |
| 1:05.9 | And it's interesting, you know, I mean, this is our first dad on, |
| 1:09.4 | and this is a first dad on Mom Brain, which I feel like, you know, is super cool and super important. |
| 1:14.1 | It says a lot about him that he wanted to come on a show called Mom Brain. |
| 1:17.3 | I mean, you have to be like very comfortable with yourself. |
| 1:21.6 | Maybe, maybe, maybe, no, but he is such a lovely guy and so smart and |
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