Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Adam Galinsky

👤 Person
855 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

So, for example, one person might talk about how, yeah, I work really hard on making sure I see the big picture. I communicate it. I make sure that we all are going in an optimistic direction. I find ways to simplify it so that people can understand that. Or someone else is like, yeah, I really practice at being calm in a crisis, right? I know how important that is.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

So, for example, one person might talk about how, yeah, I work really hard on making sure I see the big picture. I communicate it. I make sure that we all are going in an optimistic direction. I find ways to simplify it so that people can understand that. Or someone else is like, yeah, I really practice at being calm in a crisis, right? I know how important that is.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

So, for example, one person might talk about how, yeah, I work really hard on making sure I see the big picture. I communicate it. I make sure that we all are going in an optimistic direction. I find ways to simplify it so that people can understand that. Or someone else is like, yeah, I really practice at being calm in a crisis, right? I know how important that is.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

I know because of leader amplification effect that my anxiety will become their anxiety. But if I'm calm, they're going to be calm. Or they say, I work really hard at trying to meet the needs of other people, being that good mentor. They might not use those words, but they recognize the power. Here's the one element that I think characterizes every person that we might describe as inspiring.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

I know because of leader amplification effect that my anxiety will become their anxiety. But if I'm calm, they're going to be calm. Or they say, I work really hard at trying to meet the needs of other people, being that good mentor. They might not use those words, but they recognize the power. Here's the one element that I think characterizes every person that we might describe as inspiring.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

I know because of leader amplification effect that my anxiety will become their anxiety. But if I'm calm, they're going to be calm. Or they say, I work really hard at trying to meet the needs of other people, being that good mentor. They might not use those words, but they recognize the power. Here's the one element that I think characterizes every person that we might describe as inspiring.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

It goes back to one of the things that we've already talked about is, again, the power of reflection. The people that are truly inspiring reflect on their experience. They reflect on the things they did good that day. and they work on how they might continue them. They also reflect on the times when they didn't see the big picture, or they lost their temper, or they were anxious in a crisis.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

It goes back to one of the things that we've already talked about is, again, the power of reflection. The people that are truly inspiring reflect on their experience. They reflect on the things they did good that day. and they work on how they might continue them. They also reflect on the times when they didn't see the big picture, or they lost their temper, or they were anxious in a crisis.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

It goes back to one of the things that we've already talked about is, again, the power of reflection. The people that are truly inspiring reflect on their experience. They reflect on the things they did good that day. and they work on how they might continue them. They also reflect on the times when they didn't see the big picture, or they lost their temper, or they were anxious in a crisis.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

They think about how they could be better the next time. I think that is really so profoundly fundamental. People say only the reflected life is worth living, but the reflective life is what allows us to be the best possible version of ourselves.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

They think about how they could be better the next time. I think that is really so profoundly fundamental. People say only the reflected life is worth living, but the reflective life is what allows us to be the best possible version of ourselves.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

They think about how they could be better the next time. I think that is really so profoundly fundamental. People say only the reflected life is worth living, but the reflective life is what allows us to be the best possible version of ourselves.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

There are not. I think that, again, gets back to this idea that leaders aren't born, that they're made. I will say that there's one thing that I think does really help people be more inspiring and why it's so important to be inspiring yourself is that it's a heck of a lot easier to be inspiring if you had inspiring people as your mentors, as your parents, as your leaders.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

There are not. I think that, again, gets back to this idea that leaders aren't born, that they're made. I will say that there's one thing that I think does really help people be more inspiring and why it's so important to be inspiring yourself is that it's a heck of a lot easier to be inspiring if you had inspiring people as your mentors, as your parents, as your leaders.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

There are not. I think that, again, gets back to this idea that leaders aren't born, that they're made. I will say that there's one thing that I think does really help people be more inspiring and why it's so important to be inspiring yourself is that it's a heck of a lot easier to be inspiring if you had inspiring people as your mentors, as your parents, as your leaders.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

One of the things that we know is that we tend to perpetuate the leadership that we receive ourselves. I discovered this self as a father. My dad had this volcanic rage that would come out for spilling milk, just ridiculous. tortured and terrorized me. I even had nightmares with my dad chasing me in my dreams. My dad was a wonderful person.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

One of the things that we know is that we tend to perpetuate the leadership that we receive ourselves. I discovered this self as a father. My dad had this volcanic rage that would come out for spilling milk, just ridiculous. tortured and terrorized me. I even had nightmares with my dad chasing me in my dreams. My dad was a wonderful person.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

One of the things that we know is that we tend to perpetuate the leadership that we receive ourselves. I discovered this self as a father. My dad had this volcanic rage that would come out for spilling milk, just ridiculous. tortured and terrorized me. I even had nightmares with my dad chasing me in my dreams. My dad was a wonderful person.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

He's probably the most inspiring person in my life, but he had this one infuriating flaw. Early on, as a parent, two little boys, they would spill milk and I I would explode in rage. I felt like I'd become my dad. I saw the effect on them, the immediate impact, the sense of that fugue state of panic that they experienced when that rage came out. I had to train myself to not be my dad.

Something You Should Know
The Essential Qualities of Inspiring People & The Rules of How Life Works

He's probably the most inspiring person in my life, but he had this one infuriating flaw. Early on, as a parent, two little boys, they would spill milk and I I would explode in rage. I felt like I'd become my dad. I saw the effect on them, the immediate impact, the sense of that fugue state of panic that they experienced when that rage came out. I had to train myself to not be my dad.