The Nuance of No – Adam Grant, Ph.D. : 577
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Bulletproof Radio features organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who brings a dynamic acumen to all of his work. He has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers and named to Fortune's 40 under 40 list.
In today’s show, you’ll learn why burnout is thriving and people aren’t, and why burnout matters from a gender perspective. You’ll find out how doing more five-minute favors allows the 30,000-foot view of life to come into view and how nailing “no” frees you up while still allowing you to help others.
Our conversation about job design covers a lot of interesting ground, from earning “idiosyncrasy credits” to pitching your ideal role, to companies with no bosses. Adam poses the questions: “If you're an individual with creative ideas, how do you champion them effectively? And then, if you're a leader, how do you build a culture that welcomes original ideas, and then, makes them a reality?”
Adam’s a researcher, a top-rated professor at The Wharton School, a New York Times columnist, a TEDtalk favorite, and the author of three New York Times bestselling books. He’s also considered to be a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning in our work and live more generous and creative lives.
If you want to learn how to design work that works for your life, this episode is filled with practical value from beginning to end.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's cool fact of the day is that about a third of American adults sleep less than |
| 0:20.2 | six hours a night according to a brand new, very broad survey of about 400,000 respondents. |
| 0:28.5 | 32.9% reported that short sleep in 2017 up from 28% in 2004. |
| 0:37.4 | What they're finding is that people are sleeping significantly less from 2013 onward. |
| 0:43.7 | And the trend has increased most among black and Hispanic people, more so there than among |
| 0:48.2 | white people, which I'm not sure why. |
| 0:52.1 | And there's a 15% increase representing more than 9 million people about the population |
| 0:56.3 | New York City. |
| 0:58.7 | And it's possible people are sleeping less than what they reported because people overestimate |
| 1:03.5 | the number of hours they sleep. |
| 1:05.2 | If you use sleep tracking like I do, you might say, oh, I was in bed for six and a half |
| 1:08.6 | or seven hours, but you might have only gotten six hours of sleep because you woke up |
| 1:13.1 | or because it took you well to go to sleep and things like that. |
| 1:16.6 | The researchers who did the study believe that it's probably stress or overuse of technology. |
| 1:22.1 | And I got to say, those bright white screens, the rise of the iPhone in 2009 may have been |
| 1:29.7 | related to this, not just the iPhone, but all of the things with big screens like that. |
| 1:35.2 | And according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research, seven or more |
| 1:38.8 | hours per night is the recommended sleep time. |
| 1:41.3 | According to the bulletproof Dave Asprey perspective, people who sleep more than eight hours |
| 1:45.6 | a night die more than people who sleep six and a half hours a night. |
| 1:49.1 | So if you need more than eight hours of sleep, get it and deal with your health because |
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