World Leading Psychologist: The 19 Words That Change How You Handle Criticism | Adam Grant
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What does high performance really demand from the human mind? In this conversation, world-leading organisational psychologist Adam Grant explores how the best performers think, learn, and lead.
Adam unpacks why great leaders build challenge networks instead of echo chambers, how to recognise when ego is driving your decisions instead of growth, and why real loyalty means speaking up, not staying silent.
This is a practical and profound guide to sustainable success, one that brings clarity, calm, and confidence to anyone striving to perform at their best.
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| 0:00.0 | Here at first on the high performance app, available early, Joe Cole, former Chelsea, |
| 0:04.5 | Ann Ingle and Footballer, a man who was known as one of the greatest talents of his generation. |
| 0:09.0 | I've known him for years, and I've never known him to get this emotional. |
| 0:13.2 | Check it out right now. |
| 0:18.2 | We're trying to feed our egos as opposed to fuel our growth. |
| 0:23.6 | That is where we begin today. |
| 0:25.8 | I mean, what a quote, what a way to start an episode of high performance as we welcome |
| 0:30.1 | one of the most influential thinkers. |
| 0:32.3 | Adam Grant, world leading organizational psychologist to the show. |
| 0:35.9 | This is a man whose work on leadership, mindset and performance |
| 0:38.7 | has shaped the thinking of the greatest leading CEOs, |
| 0:42.8 | athletes and creatives around the world. |
| 0:45.1 | And I think the way I would describe this conversation, Damien, |
| 0:47.4 | is this is a kind of a very real look, if you're like, |
| 0:51.2 | at what high performance actually demands from a human mind and from a |
| 0:55.3 | human being? Yeah, I'd say it's practical, pragmatic and incredibly profound. He shares why the best |
| 1:01.0 | performers build challenge networks and not echo chambers around them. It describes the difference |
| 1:05.6 | between ego and growth and how you can spot which one's in charge and why real loyalty isn't sitting in silence. |
| 1:12.7 | It's about being willing to give answers honestly. |
| 1:15.4 | Oh, I love that. |
| 1:16.2 | Look, if we've learned one big thing since we started this show, |
| 1:18.7 | it's that real high performance should be sustainable, right? |
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