Adam Grant: 10 CRAZY Stats About Why Only 2% of the People Becomes Successful!

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Released

February 12, 2024

Duration

1h 46m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

If you enjoy hearing about how to rethink work and productivity, I recommend you check out my conversation with Nir Eyal, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdoUbCFn24 00:00 Intro 02:16 Finding Happiness Meaning & Success 05:06 Redefining The Game & Changing The Rules About Success 07:36 Who Are More Successful, Givers Or Keepers? 10:41 Taking The Initiative: Great Ideas Need Execution 14:37 What Happens To Procrastinators? 21:53 Who Are The Originals Of Our Time? 22:38 What Are The Characteristics Of Originals 24:04 Why Child Geniuses Won't Become Adult Geniuses 25:25 Being A Perfectionist 27:28 The Importance Of Urgency 33:27 The Importance Of Leaning Into Difficulty 38:37 What Role Trauma Plays In Becoming Successful? 41:12 What Determines What Sibling Will Be More Successful? 48:41 What Makes A Risk Taker? 53:34 What Takes To Build A Great Team 57:54 What Happens To People When You Take Them Out Of Their Team Culture 01:01:49 How To Not Get Complacent If You're Successful 01:07:17 Disagreeing With Your Boss 01:11:25 What Science Says About Group Vs Individual Thinking 01:17:07 Unlocking Your Hidden Potential 01:27:43 Self Promotion Vs Idea Promotion 01:29:57 Think Like A Scientist 01:44:12 Last Guest Question You can purchase Adam’s book, ‘Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things’, here: https://amzn.to/42GCOf9 Follow Adam Twitter - https://bit.ly/3OEdq45 Instagram - https://bit.ly/3UveeMg YouTube - https://bit.ly/4bpaAtg You can purchase the Conversation Cards here: https://thediary.com/collections/the-cards Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Linkedin Jobs: https://www.linkedin.com/doac

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• Adam Grant

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• Steven Bartlett

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Adam Grant and Steven Bartlett, Adam Grant: 10 CRAZY Stats About Why Only 2% of the People Becomes Successful! explores adam Grant Reveals Science-Backed Secrets For Unlocking Hidden Potential Adam Grant joins The Diary Of A CEO to unpack why only a small minority of people realize their potential and how social science can dramatically improve our odds. He reframes success away from raw talent and perfectionism toward character skills like embracing discomfort, questioning defaults, and thinking like a scientist. Through research, stories, and practical frameworks, Grant explains how procrastination can fuel creativity, why later-born siblings often take more risks, and how teams and leaders routinely mismanage culture, feedback, and innovation. The conversation closes with concrete advice on turning critics into coaches, promoting ideas instead of ourselves, and ensuring we don’t reach the end of life regretting the risks we never took.

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