So what would it take to make you rethink a deeply held belief or point of view that is one of Adam Grant's recent fascinations.
Adam is an organizational psychologist and Ted speaker who's sold millions of books.
His TED talks have been viewed, I think, something like 25 million times.
And he helps people find meaning and motivation at work.
He's been Wharton's top rated professor for seven straight years.
He's a leading expert on really how we can find motivation and meaning and live more generous and creative lives.
And Adam's work has inspired people to really rethink fundamental assumptions about motivation, generosity and creativity.
Interestingly, in past life, he's also a former junior Olympic springboard diver.
And his new book, think again, is this really fascinating deep dive into how we come to form points of views, opinions, and beliefs?
Why it's so important to hold each, even our staunchest beliefs more lightly than we think?
And what happens when we stay doggedly attached to opinions and beliefs, even as the world starts to reveal that maybe we shouldn't be?
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
I was catching up on some of the work that you've been doing over the last couple of years and saw these two studies that came out.
I think 2019 2021 was about moderate procrastination, increasing creativity, and the other was about things where you have a high intrinsic motivation for a particular task, potentially leading to reduced motivation to do pretty much everything else.
So I was looking at these.
I'm like, taken together, it sounds like this is permission to be a moderately motivated slacker.
It's funny.
The two papers there, they're both with Ji Hy Shin, who's one of the most creative people I've ever met.
And I had a very similar reaction when she came to me with both of these ideas.