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

2025-01-04 People & Blogs
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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… - 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 - Get the best bloodwork analysis in America and bypass Function’s 400,000-person waitlist at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Top Comments (10)

@motivason 2025-01-04

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."

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@paulspeaks9521 2025-01-04

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

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@ChrisWillx 2025-01-04

Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Here's the timestamps: 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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@Goldenspiderducck 2025-01-04

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

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@melissachinnici 2025-01-05

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

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@Dailygrilling 2025-01-06

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

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@dragonrider9051 2025-01-04

Keep failing till it's comfortable and then when you win it's a surprise

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@willl5970 2025-01-17

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

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@lukes5631 2025-01-06

How much potential? You don't HAVE pontial. You FIND it. You dig deep into yourself and go searching for it.

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@AJax7886 2025-01-18

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.

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