Adam Grant - Honing Your Potential and Building Strong Character Traits | Prof G Conversations
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Adam Grant, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and bestselling author, joins Scott to discuss his latest book, “Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things," and more.
Timestamps:
00:00 In this Episode
01:40 How should we be better thinking about talent and potential?
02:17 What are some character skills that you think are most under and overrated?
03:30 How do you recognize what might be a hidden potential within someone?
05:45 What are your thoughts on the ‘no free will’ argument?
07:19 How can alternating between different skills lead to better performance?
09:46 How should we think about the biases we might hold as we assess performance within the workplace?
11:58 How can schools better format themselves so that students live up to their potential?
14:16 What is the Peter Principle?
14:52 How should we rethink promotions?
16:29 How can people mitigate feelings of imposter syndrome?
18:32 What makes one have a strong sense of self?
20:03 What characteristics do we over index on when we’re trying to pick a leader versus those we under index on?
22:05 What are your thoughts about what’s going on in college campuses right now, as it relates to the war in the Middle East?
25:47 In 5-10 years, what do you hope to achieve that you haven’t achieved already?
27:55 How has your work impacted your role as a father or the other way around?
30:16 Algerba of Happiness: Thoughts on being a good partner?
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I had a bout of envy and jealousy just last night. I saw an old girlfriend from over 30 years ago. She’s a few years my senior but looks 20+ years younger, and much healthier. After I finished eating my heart out I decided to turn this into a source of inspiration. I cleaned up my diet and already exercised 30 minutes this morning.
Hell yeah
So enjoyed this conversation!! Regarding free will, my seemingly self-determined twisty and turny life also made this idea difficult to take in, despite my deep respect towards Sapolsky’s and Harris’s wisdom. Yuval Noah Harari clarified the conflict: If free will is the freedom to PURSUE what we desire, we have free will. If free will is the freedom to CHOOSE what we desire, we don’t have free will. Thank you:-)
Adam grant is freaking awesome. Great concepts and very likable.
Adam Grant and Scott Galloway, you are both amazing, and this interview was timely for me as I am currently working through a very unsettling period in my career. Thank you!
I hope that you were similarily impacted by the comments on "imposter syndrome". I found the comments to be encouraging and left me optimistic for something I have felt my entire life. I am continually surprised by how well I have done in life compared to what I thought I was going to do. Also, upending the Peter Principle was a confirmation of choices I made for myself that were beneficial. Great interview!
I appreciate sense of humor and dirty jokes at the beginning of the show Rock on brother!
Every job I've had I've felt like I learned incredibly slowly and was really bad at it. Sort of made me hate work at times. The feedback I constantly get is how quick a learner I am and how great I am. Idk if i should believe them or if its imposter syndrome or if I'm actually right. Regardless, the expecation that I am good at my job is something I welcome and pushes me to be better.
Great conversation, thanks for that! Would like to get more sort of that try to understand the human nature.
It took me 3 years to get into my local ibew. Glad I kept trying. It's changed my life
Great conversation
The healthy greens every digital diet needs.
Thank you!
I genuinely wish I had this interview to plagiarize from while I was writing my dissertation... because spending a year and a half doing system dynamics simulation to re-create these effects was a lot more effort (but really showed the exact same result that the grit and resilience, which are learn-able things) to link to the sorts of activities that do the best job of fostering those and enabling students from disadvantaged backgrounds to actually see the ROI in accepting discomfort to break out of the limits of their socioeconomic background.
Excellent discussion and fantastic guest. The part where free speech was unceremoniously trounced was a bit cringe, but, overall very good.
Freakin' great. The whole thing.
I understand the reflexive pessimism of having no free will, but if you sit and think about it for a while it's actually interesting and constructive of a belief to hold. Think about it: there is nothing particularly entertaining about viewing life as a collection of choices we make as free agents, unshackled from the chain of causality by some mysterious nexus. We make a decision, we own it, we move on. Simple. But if that is not the case then that awareness forces us to look deeper into history and circumstances. And more broadly how to rearrange society in a way that makes sense where things like individual credit, punishment, success, failure, etc are priced in / collectivized instead of attributing everything to a person's character. A revolution in determinism will lead to a revolution of empathy.
The problem(s) with trying to control "hate" speech are, who decides what is hate speech and what is the punishment for such an act, will there be an obligation for the excuser to prove and if they cried wolf then they should have an equal punishment.
love that adam dismisses the "no free will" stuff.
Thoroughly hate this, but not really. It hit to close to home. I nodded in agreement about the extroverts and sociopaths being promoted -- I think that is often to get them out of everyone else's way. One of the hardest things I have had to learn is that better educated people I have trusted haven't lived up to their sale pitch. I have seriously bad lawyers, accountants, and bank account managers. (side note: I had an account manager who use to speak me in the third person.) I had a grade 8 geography teacher who tald me that when the Boston-New York-Washington corridor reaches 50 million they will rename it "Bosnywash" (wtf?) The toughest lesson was learning to make my own final decision as those highly educated, over paid professionals just are not that bright. I no longer seek out geniuses but rather common sense. Thank you Scott, Adam, and the entire #ProfG team who help make this happen.
ps: the best thing about education is that it gives you internal security and confidence.
Great point: 'the extroverts and sociopaths being promoted - I think that it is often to get them out of everyone else's way'. I never realised this before but in retrospect I've seen it happen!
24:38 Scott, who is the judge of what qualifies (today) as hate speech.
And mind your footing, there at the top of that slope.
Do you honestly not know what hate speech is? They literally say in the video that it’s pretty obvious when you hear it. Do you know what separates pornography from art? A Supreme Court justice defined it by essentially saying “ I’ll know it when I see it.” Do you think hate speech is more difficult to identify than pornography is?
Do you honestly think everyone has the same definitions of hate speech or even all Supreme Court Justices have the same definitions of pornography? Hate speech is in the ears of the beholder, including how that person has been taught to interpret speech. For Scott to advocate explosion for "hate speech" the definition should be a lot more concrete than "I know it when I hear it." The threshold should be pretty high in a country that values free speech as high as we do.
I'll give an example of arbitrary interpretation of hate speech from decades ago...while I was in college. The US was in one of our non-war conflicts with a fancy name. Some students hung US flags out of their dorms and campus apartments. The administration declared that as a form of hate speech (I don't think "hate speech" was a phrase back then but whatever they called it, it was the same idea) since it intimidated those from the region of conflict that were also attending the university.
Mind you, quite a few vets were also attending that university too and wanted to show solidarity and their country pride. Was that hate speech? The administration, eventually, backed down and approved displaying the US flag. I remember going to class the day that they backed down and the professor (in an RTVF class, of all places) opening his lecture with..."I see that the administration has re-discovered the constitution."
Just like how those fashion mags messed with people's self-esteem, this avalanche of clickbait-driven headlines featuring a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings striking it rich might be fueling a massive outbreak of imposter syndrome. It's like the world now has only two types: you're either an overachieving wunderkind or just another cog in the corporate wheel. But maybe, just maybe, Sam's got the guts to cut through the hype and show us who's for real and who's just riding the FOMO wave with the press and VCs…
SBF was one of those who had whatever is the opposite of imposter syndrome and he's facing life in prison. I liked the idea of not seeing it as a "syndrome"/bug but instead turn it into a positive.
@@beetdiggingcougar DB Cooper would’ve blushed
There is free will, I can explain my theory in less than five minutes.
Complete determinism leads directly and inevitably to complete fatalism.
Complete fatalism leads directly and inevitably to complete nihilism.
Complete nihilism leads directly and inevitably to complete hell.
If the universe is completely deterministic, then:
-There is no right or wrong.
-There is no good or evil.
-It is impossible to decrease pain and suffering.
-It is impossible to increase flourishing.
-The only purpose of consciousness is to observe what must happen each moment from now until the end of time.
The universe is either completely deterministic or it is not completely deterministic.
The probability the universe is completely deterministic is greater than zero and less than one.
The probability the universe is not completely deterministic is greater than zero and less than one.
The sum of these two probabilities equals one.
If one acts as if they have free will in a universe that is not completely deterministic, then one is acting correctly.
If one acts as if they have free will in a universe that is completely deterministic, then one is making an error.
(How much additional pain and suffering does this error potentially cause? NONE.)
If one acts as if they do not have free will in a universe that is completely deterministic, then one is acting correctly.
If one acts as if they do not have free will in a universe that not is completely deterministic, then one is making an error.
(How much additional pain and suffering does this error potentially cause? The potential additional pain and suffering is infinite.)
Word salad, up for order!!
Two points I am trying to catchup on….with your show …
What I hear from overseas geopoliticians & or Philosophers….etc …plus outside sources…is that more than what initiated antisemitism is this existence of a massif group ….BRICS… which is more worrisome & scary than antisemitism….resulting of decades if not centuries of colonialism is that sudden BRICS GROUP….
And reference of what you said personally, about yourself & I am so far from having your privileged background…
Imposter syndrome !…. I think that as educated, brilliant in your field,
Overrated by people who expect a lot from you, others who compete with you… underrated…. Competitive individuals who need that competition to exist or be confident…
Now on your side, if you feel that you are an imposter, maybe it is because you deal with extremely educated people & you maybe find yourself in front of forces which give you doubts.
This Country is extremely competitive, school are leaning in that direction.
I suffered of that mentality when I had to adapt to the NY culture, coming from France.
Personally I succeeded to not get caught in that game, too much pressure which I didn’t care for nor wanted in my brain.
To me the main interest is to be very demanding from ourselves & to never disappoint ourselves.
So the worst competitor is us, with ourselves, regardless of other’s.
That in itself is extremely disconcerting to others, because it makes you so confident based on your comfortable attitude…
Now learning & loving are two successful life acts…. Not that difficult as long as we are not caught into one war or another.
Now for you the heros that you were & your boy’s relationships it is partly very normal plus as a teacher, maybe you tend to communicate as a Professor, like teaching… lecturing…elaborating…pontificating …I have a sister who I love, but she has that trace…annoying some times…. it what it is.
Plus you have a great tone of voice, very recognizable to you, you show a great confidence that only you know is not always what it reflects, maybe very grave tone & maybe intimidating to adolescents…your kids….
I caught other points, but enough for me now…. Always very interesting to listen to you & your guests.
I am going to check on Adam Grant. I like his mind a lot….psychologically… thank you. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Ahah do not be jealous @profgalloway you guys are different & have a lot to offer in your both different ways…. Love love those last words of Adam Grant🇫🇷🇺🇸
Scott repeatedly says his audience is predominately young men, This old one finds that a surprise. I don't know that I would have appreciated him when I was one, but I do now, except for his wanting to raise taxes on the people doing something useful with their money.
Another book by a psychologist.
Amazing how the world keeps moving forward and how people react to, study, and write about those changes. We should just rely on the books already written. We don't need to refine theories or address new challenges. Everyone should just be reading Freud on Modern Business.
@@arleighhelfer49Thanks for this comment. You made me smile 😏
The free will discussion is NOT about you can't make choices.
It's that the externalities play MUCH more of a part on getting you there, driving you to the choice and determining post-choice processing.
Come on guys, you're absolutely smarter than tripping on the first step out the gates on this one.
Kind of a missed opportunity for a deep dive but if it's just silliness to you, fair play. I guess.