Adam Grant
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345 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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As you were describing your experience, I was thinking about what Tal Ben-Shahar calls the arrival fallacy, the misguided belief that once I get this job or this recognition or once I fall in love and get married or once I have kids, fill in your wants, that everything will be different.
And I think Hemingway put it best when he said, you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
I think your book really speaks to this in you spend a lot of time on inner work and sort of walking us through what you learned spiritually that helped with your mental health.
I'd love to know what came out of that.
And I think our audience is probably curious about that too.
I think the way that you just articulated metacognition is really compelling.
And I think... Well, I want to say something about that.
I mean, that makes a lot of sense to me, and there have been a few papers showing that even when people do transcendental or loving-kindness meditation, sometimes they come out more self-focused.
It's like, I want to be more loving.
I'm going to be kinder.
I'm going to be more generous.
How do you think about making sure that whatever reflective or contemplative practice you do isn't self-centered?
That was a great screed against mindfulness.
Exactly what the world needs.
If you think about the void of spirituality, the sense of purpose and transcendence that a lot of people are looking for in life.
I remember Derek Thompson wrote a great Atlantic article a few years ago on workism.
where he said that work has taken the place that religion and faith and spirituality traditions used to hold in our society.
I read the article and I thought, yeah, I teach a lot of students who pray to the high priest of hustle and who worship at the altar of status.
Like you were saying earlier, I don't think we should strive to strip work of its meaning.
I want people to have meaningful, worthwhile jobs.
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