Tom Rath: 3/15/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Tom Rath is a New York Times bestselling author and researcher best known for his books Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes and Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life. On the show, Tom shares a few tips about how to make better micro-decisions (7:00) and how to teach kids better social and behavioral dynamics (17:00). Plus, Brian and Tom discuss the work of Adam Grant and why doing things for others is often our best motivator (21:00). Tom also talks about the difference between finding happiness and finding meaning (31:00) and shares his thoughts about people pursuing their passions and how we can change employee to employer relationships to encourage people to find meaningful work (41:00). You can watch Tom’s documentary, Fully Charged, by clicking here. Topics mentioned: Fully Charged by Tom Rath Fully Charged Documentary Eat Move Sleep by Tom Rath Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Give and Take by Adam Grant Originals by Adam Grant People mentioned: Tom Rath Brian Wansink Nicholas Christakis James Altucher James Fowler Amy Wrzesniewski The Moment is brought to you Monster. Find employees who work as hard as you at Monster.com/hiring. Monster. Find Better. And by Amazon. Detective Harry Bosch is back on the new season of Amazon’s Original Series Bosch, based on the best selling novels by Michael Connelly. Stream the new season now on Amazon Prime Video. Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment Podcast production by Jayson De Leon To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The moment is brought to you by Monster.
0:02.0	Find employees who work as hard as you at monster.com slash hiring.
0:07.0	Monster find better.
0:09.0	And by Amazon.
0:11.0	Detective Harry Bosch is back on the new season of Amazon's
0:14.0	original series Bosch based on the great best-selling novels by Michael Connolly.
0:18.5	Stream the new season now on Amazon Prime video. The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:25.5	Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening. Today's guest is researcher, author, and walking inspiration, Tom Rath. You might know he first became famous, I think, for co-writing and researching
0:46.7	Strengths Finder and Strenges Finder 2.0, books that I sat there reading and arguing
0:51.8	with, but I did read them and found them completely compelling
0:54.7	and did all the stuff at them.
0:57.0	And then his book Eat Move, Sleep, and his book fully charged, just flat out loved.
1:01.8	I'm very cautious about speaking to people in the self-help space, Tom.
1:07.6	Some of my closest friends are in that world, but I find it's people often with individuals who haven't actually made the breakthroughs themselves.
1:17.0	But you're somebody who has clearly and who has used his own challenges to not just solve problems for himself in solving his own challenges,
1:26.0	but clearly want to solve them for the rest of us.
1:28.5	And it's for that reason that I reached out to you and asked you to come on the show.
1:32.3	So thanks for sparing the time while you're here in New York.
1:34.7	Thank you very much. I sincerely appreciate that.
1:38.0	It's true. I want to start by talking about a way in which you helped me.
1:44.0	And I wrote you an email, we don't know one another, but we had been connected by a mutual friend.
1:48.2	And I had heard you talking about this idea of disarming situations with kindness. When other people talk about it,
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