Adam Grant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I think it is.
That's my favorite kind of humor.
But I'm very sarcastic.
That's true.
But we don't always like to receive what we send, right?
Case in point.
Let's take a specific example.
I just want to get your reaction to one of my all-time favorite office scenes, which I think is a great example of a benign violation.
Okay.
So do you know that Jim likes to prank Dwight?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
So some of the pranks I think are just genius.
And my favorite one is there's an episode where Dwight picks up the phone and accidentally slams himself in the ear with it.
Like basically just clocks himself in the side of the head.
And the camera cuts to Jim saying something to the effect of,
Every day I've been unscrewing Dwight's phone.
And the first day I put one nickel in it.
And then the second day I added a second nickel.
And for months I've been adding nickels to make the phone handle heavier and heavier and heavier.
And today I took them all out.