Destroy Your Mental Limits & Unlock Your Best Self - Adam Grant

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, professor at the Wharton School and an author.

Success is multi-layered. It involves challenges like overcoming nervousness, developing an appetite for risk-taking, and dealing with failures both privately and publicly—the list goes on. So how can we better navigate these hurdles to unlock our full potential?

Expect to learn why so many people fail to reach their true potential, what most people don’t realise about where meaning and motivation come from, how to deal with uncertainty better, how to get better at taking more risks, the key to dealing with failure, why being vulnerable around showing your strengths and weakness is crucial, the best advice on how to deal with and overcome nervousness and much more…

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00:00 Are People Just Born With Natural Talent?
06:25 How to Know What Your Potential is
10:50 What We Get Wrong About Meaning
17:10 Becoming Better at Dealing With Uncertainty
21:22 The Fear of Failure
34:40 Why Vulnerability Is Important
40:56 Respecting & Managing Your Emotions
49:20 Adam’s Recipe for Happiness
56:36 Become Smart By Avoiding Being Dumb
1:05:37 Enjoying Satisfaction From Successes
1:13:02 Where to Find Adam

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[ChrisWillx]

00:00 Are People Just Born With Natural Talent?
06:25 How to Know What Your Potential is
10:50 What We Get Wrong About Meaning
17:10 Becoming Better at Dealing With Uncertainty
21:22 The Fear of Failure
34:40 Why Vulnerability Is Important
40:56 Respecting & Managing Your Emotions
49:20 Adam’s Recipe for Happiness
56:36 Become Smart By Avoiding Being Dumb
1:05:37 Enjoying Satisfaction From Successes
1:13:02 Where to Find Adam

[motivason]

I told this to my kids many years ago - "To make an impact, you must; show up, stay positive, and be so good they can't ignore you."

[Dailygrilling]

That ending was so authentic. Seeing Chris uncomfortable not looking at the camera and really not wanting to provide an example of something that could have been better. That was a perfect ending to this episode. Such a great episode

[willl]

"A compass is better than a map."
That is one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time!

[melissachinnici]

I like this dude and his demeanor. He is very coherent and easy to understand.

[paulspeaks]

0:20 "we tend to see people at their peak", this is difficult for many people to comprehend. Instead of them being born with innate talent and ability, they cultivated it through endless hours of work

[brewmastermonk]

I loved what he said about having a compass instead of a map. Life is an adventure and the future is unknown. And if every generation just retreads the same path we will stagnate and die. Virtue ethics all the way.

[CuriosityasaCompass]

I like how he uses data to support his points. Really good storytelling too. Very worthwhile content! Great guest, articulate and likable! Thanks! 😊

[vbj]

As a manager, the worst way to give feedback to your team members is to give it all at once during a performance review. Both positive and constructive (negative) feedback is useful when it is given in a timely manner to allow your team members to reflect, expand, create a course correction plan, improve, and grow. This is why you have weekly one-on-one meetings with your team members.

[Tufas]

I love the ending about how if you are someone who keeps friends around it tends to ground you. So much advice is about cutting out old friends "who do not contribute to your improvement", removing the "ballast", only surrounding yourself with people who are "better" than you to become the average of the 5 people you spend most of your time with etc. This just means you are constantly cycling through friends which seems like the definition of miserable to me. Your friends also know that you could leave them at any moment since they are only tools to you. Such weird advice

[hunterreams]

Love Adam Grant. Happy you brought him on, Chris - his data-backed optimism is so refreshing. Cheers

[AJax]

55:00 The funny thing I noticed about bias: it's incredibly easy to spot when you disagree with it, but incredibly easy to miss when you agree with it.

[apple]

great episode guys, id rate it 8/10.
not life changing, but sprinkled with plenty of golden nuggests of some truly valuable modern wisdom dare i say.

[realninja]

Absolutely brilliant conversation. Adam dropped multiple gems.

[karandeengar]

Listening to this in my commute. Thank you!

[PatrickKerwin]

I filled a page with notes from this episode. Thank you.

[Goldenspiderducck]

It often takes at least ten years to be an overnight success.

[altervaas]

Ayee relevant to my life AND within 10min of release; Fantastic

[csawandsaid]

Yes. To answer the original poster’s question ‘Are people born with natural talent?’ Yes. Thus NATURAL talent. Can people learn skills and excel, succeed and surpass natural talent. I believe so. Sadly some us do not ever find what our natural gifts are and it’s great if parents let their kids explore and if people as they grow up KEEP exploring.

[OstOst-tb]

The 'good coach/teacher' thing is right. Although works the other way round, of course. Who hires the good coaches?* Those capable to ignite a spark? Now we are back to resources and distribution..rince and repeat. Creates what..?

Now lets get a little further. Lets say you let something else, than 'only' resources and skill, effect the selection process. Lets take - 'favors'. What happens over time..?