Adam Grant
speaker
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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My my favorite trick, my favorite short trick anyway, uh is a trick where I have somebody from the audience pick a card.
Uh I try to find it in the deck, it's disappeared, and then I throw the deck against the wall and the card is stuck on the glass.
Usually on a window.
much more recognizable than I am, but he's uh he was also a much better diver than I was.
He was on the British national team for something like a decade.
Uh I was a springboard diver.
Uh was not good enough to
make Olympic trials.
I kind of peaked by becoming a junior Olympic national qualifier.
And I um I actually think a big part of of my interest in psychology and trying to apply that to our lives came out of diving when I was afraid of heights and I had to motivate myself to flip and twist in midair.
And I was worried that I was going to get lost or belly flop or end up smacking on my back and transitioning then
from diving to coaching, trying to get other divers to do the same thing.
It really made me realize there's a lot we don't understand about what makes us tick.
I think so I've never tried stand-up comedy.
I think it would be a fun challenge to take on.
I did do improv for the first time this past year.
And it it felt actually a lot like teaching or, you know, answering questions after a keynote speech or or even a live podcast interview.
Um where okay, the goal is to, you know, to make people laugh, but at the end of the day, um, you're trying to to take everything that you've learned um and make it relevant to the audience.
I think
Like for me, being in those positions was profoundly uncomfortable at first.
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