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Revisionist History

Unlocking Hidden Potential with Adam Grant

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.861.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Malcolm Gladwell hosts a rollicking live discussion about Adam Grant’s new book, “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things,” which is available now. They explore why we overemphasize innate talent, how Adam grappled with impostor syndrome as a writer and perfectionism as an athlete, and how to chart a path toward achieving greater things. They also discuss the evidence on affirmative action — and riff on topics ranging from humility to psychoanalysis to whether Lions or Bills fans suffer more.

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0:00.0

It's all about being resilient and self-reliant, right? It's all about being a man needing

0:14.8

no one and having no emotional response to the external world whatsoever, right? Well,

0:19.8

if that's what you think stoicism is and you like to learn what actual capital S stoicism

0:24.5

is, the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and virtue ethics framework centered around developing

0:29.9

a good character and service to the cosmopolists, then hi, I'm Tanner Campbell, and I'd like

0:35.0

to invite you to subscribe to my podcast, Practical Stoicism. Every weekday I release a new episode

0:40.9

focused on actual stoicism, and if that's your thing, I hope you'll check it out. You

0:45.7

can find practical stoicism wherever you already listen to podcasts or at stoicismpod.com.

0:54.7

My good friend Adam Grant, author and psychology professor at UPEN, has a new book out, Hidden

1:00.3

Potential, The Science of Achieving Greater Things. He sent me a draft months ago. I told

1:06.0

Adam, I love it so much that when it comes out, I want to sit down and interview you about

1:10.8

it and we'll run the interview in the revisionist history feed. Sure enough, Hidden Potential

1:15.8

has now come out. And on Adam's publication day, he came to New York and joined me on stage

1:21.0

at the 92nd Street Y for what turned out to be a really, really fun conversation. As

1:27.2

we always have whenever we get together, so here it is.

1:32.1

Thank you. Thank you all for coming. Adam, thank you for coming to New York. You know,

1:40.9

we have done this many times. We have, and it's usually on my turf, not yours.

1:46.6

This is what I was about to say. I was going to ask you, what is different this time around?

1:50.6

You, that's exactly right. You have finally come to my house and I was reflecting on this

1:56.6

and I was wondering, what kind of an idiot am I that I have agreed to go to your turf

2:03.0

like seven times in a row before demanding that we return to favor? This is like a, you

2:08.2

know, in basketball. This is like someone's seating, you know, home territory and saying,

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