November 11, 2019 • 43 mins
Can we control how others perceive us? Adam Grant’s career is an ongoing success story.
Switching from Junior Olympic diving to organisational psychology, Adam became the youngest tenured professor at Wharton and has received multiple teaching awards. He also has four New York Times bestsellers under his belt and currently hosts the chart-topping TED podcast, WorkLife. But as he reveals to Rachel in this two-part episode, Adam is never quite satisfied. He’s on a constant quest for self-improvement. The question is: do we earn people’s trust by impressing them – or should we sometimes show (and accept) our imperfections?
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