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

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/

Chris WilliamsonhostAdam Grantguest

Jan 4, 20251h 13mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: January 4, 2025
Duration: 1h 13m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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/

SPEAKERS

Chris Williamson
host
Adam Grant
guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Adam Grant, Destroy Your Mental Limits & Unlock Your Best Self - Adam Grant explores adam Grant Explains How To Unlock Hidden Potential And Resilience Adam Grant and Chris Williamson explore what really drives high performance, arguing that opportunity, motivation, and environment outweigh innate talent. Grant emphasizes the role of ‘hidden potential’—capacity for growth that even we and those around us often can’t see—and how great coaches, mentors, and feedback cultures help surface it.

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