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Adam Galinsky

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

When I was a junior, after my junior in high school, before my senior high school, I went and lived with a family in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for three months. And that was just such a transformative experience to be on the other side of the world, to be in a very different culture. The family I lived in was solidly middle class, but I had to use the bathroom and a hole in the ground.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

When I was a junior, after my junior in high school, before my senior high school, I went and lived with a family in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for three months. And that was just such a transformative experience to be on the other side of the world, to be in a very different culture. The family I lived in was solidly middle class, but I had to use the bathroom and a hole in the ground.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

I had to share a bed with my Indonesian brother because I didn't have more space, but it was just A time in my life that really changed who I was and helped me really identify. I guess that changed who I was, helped me identify who I was.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

I had to share a bed with my Indonesian brother because I didn't have more space, but it was just A time in my life that really changed who I was and helped me really identify. I guess that changed who I was, helped me identify who I was.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

I had to share a bed with my Indonesian brother because I didn't have more space, but it was just A time in my life that really changed who I was and helped me really identify. I guess that changed who I was, helped me identify who I was.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

So there are sort of two events that happened back in 2006 within a couple of months of each other. The first was very sadly, I was on a plane at the time, but my dad was walking to a basketball game in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and got hit by a car and killed. And I found out when I'd landed to go to a conference in Los Angeles about midnight.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

So there are sort of two events that happened back in 2006 within a couple of months of each other. The first was very sadly, I was on a plane at the time, but my dad was walking to a basketball game in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and got hit by a car and killed. And I found out when I'd landed to go to a conference in Los Angeles about midnight.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

So there are sort of two events that happened back in 2006 within a couple of months of each other. The first was very sadly, I was on a plane at the time, but my dad was walking to a basketball game in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and got hit by a car and killed. And I found out when I'd landed to go to a conference in Los Angeles about midnight.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And the one saving grace from that moment, I was just, you can imagine how wrecked I was emotionally and torn apart is my dad's only sibling lived in Los Angeles. And so I was able to go to her house, my aunt's house. And I still remember very clearly when we, she opened the door, hugged in the sense of sorrow, but also this mutual comfort that we're giving each other.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And the one saving grace from that moment, I was just, you can imagine how wrecked I was emotionally and torn apart is my dad's only sibling lived in Los Angeles. And so I was able to go to her house, my aunt's house. And I still remember very clearly when we, she opened the door, hugged in the sense of sorrow, but also this mutual comfort that we're giving each other.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And the one saving grace from that moment, I was just, you can imagine how wrecked I was emotionally and torn apart is my dad's only sibling lived in Los Angeles. And so I was able to go to her house, my aunt's house. And I still remember very clearly when we, she opened the door, hugged in the sense of sorrow, but also this mutual comfort that we're giving each other.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I plaintively said to her, I can't believe I've lost my dad. And she said, we've all lost a dad. I was his big sister, but he was my dad. And that was such just an incredibly transformative comment. And I just kept coming back to it. I kept asking myself, why did that ring so true? Why did that sense that he was the dad to many matter so much?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I plaintively said to her, I can't believe I've lost my dad. And she said, we've all lost a dad. I was his big sister, but he was my dad. And that was such just an incredibly transformative comment. And I just kept coming back to it. I kept asking myself, why did that ring so true? Why did that sense that he was the dad to many matter so much?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I plaintively said to her, I can't believe I've lost my dad. And she said, we've all lost a dad. I was his big sister, but he was my dad. And that was such just an incredibly transformative comment. And I just kept coming back to it. I kept asking myself, why did that ring so true? Why did that sense that he was the dad to many matter so much?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I realized that his memorial service, which was about a month later at the university, he was a professor, like about 500 people showed up. And how many people told me stories about the impact of my dad had. And then about two months later, I was teaching the FBI. And I was with 60 FBI agents. And one of them started talking about a leader that inspired them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I realized that his memorial service, which was about a month later at the university, he was a professor, like about 500 people showed up. And how many people told me stories about the impact of my dad had. And then about two months later, I was teaching the FBI. And I was with 60 FBI agents. And one of them started talking about a leader that inspired them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I realized that his memorial service, which was about a month later at the university, he was a professor, like about 500 people showed up. And how many people told me stories about the impact of my dad had. And then about two months later, I was teaching the FBI. And I was with 60 FBI agents. And one of them started talking about a leader that inspired them.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I still remember that moment, too, because he stood up in his chair. He got big in his posture. His eyes lit up. He used his hands. He leaned in. And it was just like, and there's almost like this sense of this like awe and admiration emanating from him. And so at that moment, I turned to the rest of the FBI agents and I was like, Well, can any of you tell me about a leader that inspired you?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I still remember that moment, too, because he stood up in his chair. He got big in his posture. His eyes lit up. He used his hands. He leaned in. And it was just like, and there's almost like this sense of this like awe and admiration emanating from him. And so at that moment, I turned to the rest of the FBI agents and I was like, Well, can any of you tell me about a leader that inspired you?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Adam Galinsky on How Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams | EP 560

And I still remember that moment, too, because he stood up in his chair. He got big in his posture. His eyes lit up. He used his hands. He leaned in. And it was just like, and there's almost like this sense of this like awe and admiration emanating from him. And so at that moment, I turned to the rest of the FBI agents and I was like, Well, can any of you tell me about a leader that inspired you?