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

Frederick, I I have to tell you the disconnect between matched

Your self talk and the depth of your insight and wisdom is is as big as I've ever seen. matched

Like for a guy who thinks he's just a moron stumbling around in the dark, you invented a hell of a flashlight. matched

And I think other people can see that. matched

It's obviously a struggle for you to see that. matched

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You have, I mean, you've anticipated a bunch of research findings that have been hugely influential in psychology and took a lot of data collection to discover. matched

So one yeah, I mean, one thing you reminded me of is as you were talking is there's a a paper by a pair of Finnish researchers. matched

It was uh Salmela Arrow and Nermi, who showed that matched

For a long time we just assumed that when people got depressed, that made them self focused. matched

So you start to feel down, you turn your attention inward, what's wrong with me? matched

You start to ruminate and then you withdraw and you become sort of a less pleasant person to be around, as you were describing. matched

They showed though that it also goes a little bit the other way. matched

that if you spend too much time focusing inward, trying to fix what's wrong with you, that that actually can start to precipitate depression because you end up sort of making yourself miserable and you feel like you're not worthy of being around other people. matched

And that can sink you deeper and it it sounds like you've experienced the causal arrow going in both of those directions. matched

The other one, which is just very closely connected to that, when you were talking about do I need to be happy, I was thinking about the research of Iris Mouse and colleagues who show that when people set happiness goals, they often become less happy. matched

especially if they're from individualistic cultures because they get into this, well, I need to work on my happiness and I need to do what is going to bring me joy. matched

And they forget that a great deal of being okay, as you put it, is having meaningful relationships with other people. matched

And happiness is is rarely matched

It's it rarely succeeds as a a purely solitary pursuit. matched

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