"Ronaldo is an individual Superstar but the way he plays his game does not Elevate the team so what can we learn from this first of all Adam Grant business psychologist one of the world's most influent..."

"Adam at the very essence of your work what is it you are trying to do teach or give people I want to give people the most useful insights from social science to help them think more clearly and critic..."

"reading about those early years where you seem to be quite obsessive when faced with a variety of different challenges it did feel like you're someone that's committed their life to trying to beat the..."

"and I I'm a Manchester United fan and I was thinking I've been debating my friends in our Manchester United chat for the last two years about Christiano Ronaldo and we have two contingents in the grou..."

"wrote this book and called it Originals what did you mean by an original how do you define that I think about Originals is people who don't just question the way we've always done it but actually take..."

"your conclusion as to why well we we had a few hunches at first that that we tested uh well the first thing I wanted to know is what happened to the people who always procrastinated and G was like I d..."

"the sort of landmark Originals of our time in your mind mind uh what domain do we want to talk about are we talking Tech and business Tech and business let's go for that I mean it's hard not to put El..."

"fit your profile of an original I think I think he fits first and foremost because he challenges the status quo uh would be the beginning and then secondly I think he's uh he's Relentless in trying to..."

"they're overwhelmingly talented so they don't need to put in the hard graph that others do and they don't need to fight for new information in the same way that others do in some cases they get reward..."

"perfectionism is um a topic people talk about lot and I think everybody it seems to me that everybody wants to be considered a perfectionist as if being a perfectionist is better cuz it what does that..."

"relationship with this as well because in order to be successful in the real world you have to be somewhat urgent which means sometimes you have to say that's good enough let's go let's move let's mov..."

"you as well about something you mentioned earlier which was this idea of doing difficult things you mentioned it in passing and the question that was stored in my brain is what is it that makes a cert..."

"I was thinking as you saying that about the role trauma plays in people becoming successful and if we if we take on this idea that those that push themselves forward and then get rewarded for it are m..."

"this point of nurture is I am the youngest of four kids and in your work you discuss how that can be consequential in my relationship with risk and um convention and all of those things what does the ..."

"it seems so unlikely and he said well when I you know when I first started I knew it was extremely low probability and so that wasn't the original mission for SpaceX the mission was I want to build a ..."

"leadership roles because they're there to make the team successful I've always had a suspicion that based on the size of the company and where it is in its life cycle that a slightly different culture..."

"strangers actually made more potentially catastrophic errors than exhausted Crews that had just flown together and having a little bit of shared experience was enough to to compensate for the lack of ..."

"course when most leaders are least likely to do it because they don't think they need to and they said we've got to we've got to shake things up so they went and hired an unproven director uh named Br..."

"what you've just said yeah you're trying to create psychological safety as Amy Edmonson describes it and in some research I did with Constantino cerus uh we found that When leaders sat down and you kn..."

"personally which is uh psychologists recommend brain writing as an alternative to brainstorming what you do is you recognize that writing is not just a tool for communicating it's a tool for thinking ..."

"minutes and I wouldn't go I was wasting my time I was wasting my team teammates time I was wasting my coach's time and Eric finally said to me he said Adam are you going to do this dive and I'm like e..."

"mutual friends was like criticizing me he was saying like who the [ __ ] does he think he is this was like n years ago maybe who the [ __ ] does he think he is he thinks he's Etc that was difficult pe..."

"rethink not just the term personal branding but really the purpose of the true purpose of idea promotion is the pursuit of truth right and knowledge and um in the process of that you obviously gain a ..."

"I'm always worried when I go on a podcast that the story is too long and I want to have a conversation as opposed to just an interview and if I were you know if I were writing it in a book or if I wer..."

"research project I ever did and I guess it was foreshadowing wow that is an obscure answer that I wasn't expecting I was expecting some kind of like World tragedy or something or that's so interesting..."