Rainn Wilson

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443 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And they mistake that for being a kind of really lifeless corporate drone in a paper company.

Because first of all,

This whole idea of like it's the worst kind of hierarchy patriarchy of like the boss who kind of knows it all and you're a captive audience, you can't flee their jokes or their whims.

So that feels very like 1950s kind of and

the kind of the drudgery of the nine to five and everyone is in their little box.

There's so many things about it that feel timeless and yet completely outdated.

I would agree.

If you were going into Dunder Mifflin, if Jan hired you,

said, Michael, we've got Adam Grant here.

Conference room, five minutes.

And Adam Grant went in the conference room with Michael and Dwight and Jim and Pam and Ryan and the whole gang.

What would you be working on at Dunder Mifflin?

Wow.

For you, for you I will.

Wow, he wasn't kidding.

Play this out.

Um, tell me what you think is wrong with this place, Dunder Mifflin.

Let me start at the beginning.

Everything.

I think there is an incredible amount of dead wood.

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