Adam Grant
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2,364 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Adam Grant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Except if you look at how teenagers are watching TV now, and I see this with my own kids, they're watching with subtitles on very frequently, which means they're not just sitting there lazily consuming.
They're reading as they're listening.
That counts as some degree of active engagement.
Video games, even more so.
There's a huge body of evidence showing that video games actually boost.
grit and resilience.
They teach self-control and willpower.
They force you to grapple with failure in a lot of cases also to try to figure out how to collaborate with other people who are potentially competing against you.
I don't think that's passive at all.
I see that as active.
Perhaps.
In Europe, uh more often we're called occupational psychologists uh or work psychologists.
Basically, I study how to make work not suck.
And I started my career studying how to make jobs more meaningful and motivating.
I then transitioned to also looking at team effectiveness, collaboration, creativity.
Now I do a lot of work on organizational cultures as well.
So basically anything that has to do with human behavior at work or around trying to achieve a goal that
That's uh that's endlessly interesting to me.
number of years and I was not good enough to quit my day job.
But
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