The psychology of human delusions with filmmaker Adam McKay

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Adam McKay is one of the great satirists of our screens–he’s the writer, director, and producer behind Don’t Look Up, Succession, and The Big Short. Before that, he was best known for making us laugh at Anchorman and as the head writer of Saturday Night Live. Adam and Adam discuss the psychology of human delusion and narcissism, what he learned from improv comedy, and why success is about way more than who you know. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/RWAG9

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0:00.0	Thanks to Deloitte for sponsoring this episode.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:08.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Take.
0:12.0	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:17.0	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:23.0	My guest today is Adam McKay, director, producer, and screenwriter extraordinaire.
0:29.0	I started out as a fan of his comedy.
0:31.0	He was the head writer on Saturday Night Live and made Inkerman and Tolodega Knights with Will Farrell.
0:36.0	He expanded his range into action with Ant-Man and drama with The Big Short,
0:41.0	and was nominated for Academy Awards for Vice and Don't Look Up,
0:45.0	which in my book was the best movie of 2021.
0:48.0	If that wasn't enough, Adam's executive producer credits include My Guilty Pleasure Succession
0:53.0	and My Wife's Subcession Drunk History.
0:56.0	He has a new documentary coming out, God for Bid, and a new podcast, Bad Time Stories.
1:03.0	Hello Adam.
1:04.0	Adam.
1:05.0	It is indeed.
1:06.0	How are you, sir?
1:07.0	Good. How are you?
1:08.0	Good.
1:09.0	You lived in Philly, Adam?
1:10.0	I do live in Philly, in fact.
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