The Science of Making Work Not Suck with Adam Grant
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Interested in making work not suck? We spend a quarter of our lives in our jobs. My guest today wants to make all that time worth your time.
Enter Organizational Psychologist, Adam Grant. Adam has been Wharton’s top-rated professors for 7 straight years. He is recognized as one of the world’s most-cited, most prolific, and most influential researchers in business and economics. He has written 4 New York Times best selling books including Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves.
Adam is also the host of the top-charting podcast on TED, WorkLife, which dives deep inside the minds of some of the world’s most unusual professionals to discover the keys to a better work life.
In this conversation, we dig into many of the common questions about creativity including:
- Procrastination - how to identify it and breakthrough
- Intuition - when you trust your gut and when to ignore it
- Mastery - should we aim for breadth or depth and why
- and so much more
Adam’s researched-based insights are laser focused in helping us decipher the science behind creativity, success, and fulfillment.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. |
| 0:08.0 | Cannot wait. This guest today has been years in the making. Very, very happy to have him on the show. |
| 0:14.0 | But before we do, you know where you are. You hear at the Chase Drive's Live show on Creative Live, where I sit down with the world's most amazing and creative people who help me dissect their own lives, the lives of the creators |
| 0:26.3 | and the entrepreneurs that we revere, respect, admire most with the goal of helping you live |
| 0:32.1 | your dreams and career in hobby and in life. My guest today is the one and only Adam Grant. He has been Wharton's top |
| 0:40.5 | rated professor for seven straight years. He considers himself an organizational psychologist. |
| 0:45.6 | And right now you're going, what does that mean? Let's just say he's a leading expert on how we can |
| 0:49.8 | find motivation and meaning, live more generous and most most importantly creative lives. He's been |
| 0:56.5 | recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers was recognized by |
| 1:01.2 | Fortunes 40 under 40, author of Count 1, 2, 3, 4 New York Times bestselling books that sold |
| 1:06.6 | up millions of copies. I've read all of his books and some of them twice. Most recently, |
| 1:12.3 | the one I read twice was originals. That book's been translated into 35 languages. He's also |
| 1:20.4 | among the top authors on every platform out there, the Amazon, Apple, Financial Times, |
| 1:26.8 | Wall Street Journal, New York Times, |
| 1:29.0 | and praised globally for his work on all of the above topics. In this particular conversation, |
| 1:34.8 | though, we talk about things that you want to know about, that you've said, hey, Chase, |
| 1:39.4 | help me with procrastination. I have a project I want to get off the ground and I'm stuck. We talk about |
| 1:45.1 | intuition. How do you know when to trust your gut and want to ignore it? We talked about mastery, |
| 1:50.0 | that idea behind going deep on one subject, becoming an expert so that you can lift in and stamp |
| 1:57.0 | those concept of expertise into so many other areas of your life. And for those of you |
| 2:04.4 | who are dubious about this whole creativity thing is too soft and squishy, Adam is a hardcore |
| 2:08.6 | scientist. So we talk about the science behind creativity, the science behind success and |
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