The Keys to a Thriving Work Life - Adam Grant

Everything Is Energy with Cathy Heller

Cathy Heller

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How can you design work that is more meaningful through the act of giving and receiving? Adam Grant, best-selling author, TEDTalk speaker, organizational psychologist, professor, and host of the WorkLife podcast is on a mission to discover how we can make more purposeful, creative work in our lives. He reveals why you don't have to be original to be creative, shares the steps to becoming a successful giver without sacrificing your wellbeing, and, in an exercise of self improvement, gives Cathy a surprise challenge. - Save your seat for the Free Masterclass 3 Essential Steps to Grow Your Business! https://dont-keep-your-day-job.mykajabi.com/grow-your-business-masterclass - Preorder Cathy's book dontkeepyourdayjob.com/book - Get more of Adam Grant at adamgrant.net - Thanks Netsuite! Download their free “Seven Key Strategies to Grow your Profits” guide at NetSuite.com/dreamjob - Thank you Prose! Prose.com/dreamjob for $10 off your first order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The confidence is not just going to magically show up, right?
0:02.3	It's something that you earn through effort, through persistence,
0:05.4	through results, through accomplishments.
0:07.3	And so, if you're doubting yourself, you should act anyway and know that that's
0:12.4	the best antidote for your doubts.
0:19.6	I believe that the opposite of depression, it's not happiness.
0:23.0	It's purpose.
0:24.0	I believe that every single person has something you need to contribute to the
0:27.3	world.
0:28.3	And that's why I wanted to create a show called Don't Keep Your Day Job.
0:32.0	Don't keep your day job.
0:33.2	It's about figuring out what it is that you work here to do in this world that
0:38.3	only you can do to make the world more whole and more beautiful and to stop
0:41.9	selling yourself short and to stop sitting it out and to figure out how to take
0:45.4	this thing you love, whether it's art or music or screenwriting or dance or
0:49.2	baking.
0:50.2	How do you leave this thing that you love into a life that you get to contribute,
0:54.6	that you get to do what you love all time because it's not just about business.
0:58.2	It's about contribution.
0:59.9	It's about meaning.
1:01.0	That is what we seek.
1:02.2	That is what we truly want.
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