Adam Grant
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2,364 appearances
12 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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And then I can reason with you on your terms instead of mine.
And I I've just found that to be much more fruitful than just arguing with people right off the bat.
Well, I I do think empirically we have good evidence that polarization has increased over the last decade or two.
And there there are lots of reasons why that is.
Well, I I think that one that one does seem to be getting worse, but it's not as bad as we think it is.
I think if you look at most other metrics, this is still broadly speaking the best time in human history to be alive.
If you look at life expectancy, if you look at disease, if you look at poverty, if you look at hunger, if you look at violence, all trending in positive directions.
And I think sometimes the mistake that we make is we zoom in on one little dot, right?
And we we kind of over we over-industrial.
Next on you know the like the particular instances of violence that are in the news.
And we don't zoom out and say, actually, the murder rate has fallen year by year in developed countries.
Even even though we have an ongoing land war in Europe, war is down dramatically.
And I think we need to do more of that zooming out.
Uh I think, yeah, anybody who's read Factfulness or The Better Angels of Our Nature or Not the End of the World, I think the the data-driven
story about the state of the world is a little more uplifting than the news anchored version.
You know, one uh one of my biggest hopes, Robin, is that we change what we value in leadership.
There's a a cluster of personality traits that are called the dark triad.
They are narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
And this is the exact opposite of what we should be looking for in leadership, right?
Because narcissists are all about themselves.
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