Adam Grant

You want me to, I'm going to pause and analyze every two minutes and I'm going to just ruin the whole thing for you.

I'm in.

I've been waiting for an excuse to rewatch it, but we should also listen to the Office Ladies podcast afterward.

They are amazing.

All right.

We're adding this to our to-do list.

If you have an episode that you want us to either move to the top of the queue or to talk about the implications of, let us know.

Can we talk about how to get out of a conversation?

So I need to tell you a story.

Oh, it's not about you.

Don't worry.

You're the contrast to the story.

So we were at this conference last week and I went to the gym with a couple other attendees in the morning.

And one of them is a fitness nut and offered very generously to play personal trainer and lead the rest of us through a workout.

And so we show up, we're a couple minutes into our workout, and the other guy who's with us gets accosted by somebody I think I've met at the conference once before.

And the guy basically just launches into what had to have been a nine-minute story.

And I'm watching my friend.

He's got this look on his face like he's trying to be polite, but he's also trying to figure out how to get out of the conversation.

And meanwhile, it's holding up the whole rotation that we're in because we're on a circuit.

And he's just too nice to say, excuse me, I need to do a set.