Adam Grant

7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adam Grant · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Adam Grant: Every positive trait or experience follows an inverted U-curve
“I wrote a paper about this a couple of years ago with Barry Schwartz, where we argued that everything in life is an inverted U and that, you know, if you take any strength or virtue or positive experience, you can find too much of a good thing where, you know,…”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:57 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adam Grant: Women face double standards when voicing workplace ideas
“When a woman and a man make the same point, the man gets a big pat on the back and people start to rally around him, and the woman is either not heard or punished for being too aggressive.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:33 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Grant: Children's books with innovation themes predict patent rates decades later
“So if you look at the children's literature of a particular era, when that literature starts to include examples of people accomplishing things and succeeding in ways that are new and innovative, Patent rates actually spiked 20 to 40 years later.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:14 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Grant: Highly creative architects were raised with freedom to define their own values
“One of the things that came out was that the parents of the creative architects tended to focus less on rules and more on values, but that they gave their children a lot of freedom to actually determine their own values.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:20 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Grant: True Nonconformists Focus on Improving Things for Others
“When I think about nonconformists, I'm thinking about people who don't just reject the status quo for the sake of being different or for disagreeing, but actually care about making things better for other people.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:42 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Adam Grant: Earn status before attempting to exercise power
“One of the opportunities to overcome these biases is to make sure that you earn status before you exercise power.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:27 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Grant: 40 years of research shows assigned devil's advocates rarely work
“If you look at 40 years of research by Charlene Nemeth at Berkeley, she shows that devil's advocates rarely work.”
Adam Grant Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 37:51 a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
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