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 · Creative anxiety, self-doubt, and procrastination with Fredrik Backman · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

No, that that makes a lot of sense. matched

I found myself thinking of a couple of things as you articulate this. matched

The first is my diving coach sent me a meme one day that I I loved. matched

It just said, You are not a machine. matched

Your best looks different every day. matched

And I realized that for most of my life, I have been grading my work every day based on my best ever. matched

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I should know better as a psychologist, right? matched

I should know that like when you hit a personal best running, for example, or lifting, you're not just gonna exceed that every single day. matched

And yet I I've carried around this in implicit expectation that I will. matched

I made the mistake of you know, valuing the outcome every day. matched

And I want to make sure I value the effort daily, but I don't want to lose the outcome. matched

I just need to stretch it into a a larger time horizon. matched

So I want to value my effort daily and I wanna value the outcome on a monthly or yearly basis and say, okay, like if I put in my best every day. matched

Whatever that best is, if I zoom out enough, it's gonna add up to something of value. matched

I mean, from everything you've said so far, psychologists would probably describe you as a as a moron and a maniac. matched

No, neither. matched

I I think your self portrait would fit with what Julie Noram called defensive pessimism as opposed to strategic optimism, where you you basically anticipate the worst scenario constantly and then you try to harness your anxiety as motivation. matched

It does. matched

Well, it do I mean it it it does make sense. matched

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