Adam Grant

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2,364 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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ReThinking · What Finnish president Alexander Stubb learned from golfing with Trump · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Okay, last question for you.

I'll give you the microphone.

What's the question you have for me?

No.

You would not.

Why is that?

I think that most of the politicians that I've gotten to know, I've been surprised by how constrained they feel, by how limited their influence is.

And I think that if you want to change the world, I would say pick a role where you have more freedom as opposed to a role that's heavily constrained by the relationships you have to maintain, by the formal duties that you're charged with.

It's not to say that politicians can't or don't change the world, but...

I think that freedom is a big factor in being able to have influence.

And yeah, I think the entrepreneurs I talked to, for example, they feel much more powerful in terms of their ability to pursue their goals, to try to drive change.

And I think that just seems like a more direct path.

What do you think?

I think anybody who believes that they can answer that question is lacking the humility that we were talking about.

I don't think anyone knows.

I think one thing we can see in the data currently is that a lot of people are offloading their thinking to AI and a lot of other people are enriching their thinking with AI.

And my guess is that we're going to see a bimodal distribution.

I think that we're probably going to see a significant deficit of critical thinking for a subset of the population and a significant enhancement of critical thinking for the other subset.

And I think we're probably looking at a distinction that Jeff Hancock and his colleagues have used to say, look, at the end of the day, what really matters is, are you a passenger or a pilot?

And I think the passengers are losing and the pilots are winning.

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