The Best of WorkLife with Adam Grant

We spend almost a quarter of our lives working. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant brings listeners inside the work lives of professionals to share strategies for having a better work life. Here are a few of our favorite episodes.

We spend almost a quarter of our lives working. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant ... more

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A Surprising Antidote to Burnout, Work More

From WorkLife with Adam Grant, the unconventional method a teacher used to fight burnout and why it worked.

A Surprising Antidote to Burnout, Work More

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Reach New Heights in Your Career

Reach new heights in your career by asking yourself: “Am I a sprinter or a marathoner?” From Work Life with Adam Grant.

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Negotiate Your Salary

From WorkLife with Adam Grant, a tip for women (and everybody else) about salary negotiation.

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Form High-Quality Connections with Your Coworkers

A simple, killer exercise that helps you form high-quality connections with your coworkers (and fight loneliness!).

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How Margaret Atwood Avoids Procrastinating

Margaret Atwood tells Adam Grant on WorkLife about the alter-ego she created to help her get work done, and Adam explains why it works.

How Margaret Atwood Avoids Procrastinating

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How to Remember Anything

Science journalist Joshua Foer advises Adam Grant to put things he wants to remember in his “memory palace,” a technique that connects abstract words, numbers and ideas with concrete images and familiar places.

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A New Way to Think About Trust

Journalist Dan Coyle helps Adam Grant think about trust in a new way. He says that we don’t built trust with out colleagues in order two be vulnerable, we must be vulnerable with them in order to build trust. From WorkLife with Adam Grant.

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What Not to Say When Giving Criticism

Executive coach Kim Scott tells Adam Grant how to give criticism that's not a feedback sandwich and the #1 phrase you should never say while doing it.

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The Dangers of Faking Your Emotions

Industrial organizational psychologist Alicia Grandey explains why faking your emotions at work is so taxing on your health and home life, and shares a helpful alternative.

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Identify Your Strengths

Laura Morgan Roberts, an organizational psychologist at Georgetown, offers an exercise that can help you identify strengths that you didn’t recognize, and help you see the situations when you’re at your best.

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Turn a Moment that Drains You into One That Strengthens You

Author Marcus Buckingham wants to redefine a strength not just a thing you are good at, but an activity that makes you feel strong. Here's how to turn a situation that drains you into one that makes so stronger.

Turn a Moment that Drains You into One That Strengthens You

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The Best of WorkLife with Adam Grant

A Surprising Antidote to Burnout, Work More

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Reach New Heights in Your Career

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Negotiate Your Salary

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Form High-Quality Connections with Your Coworkers

WorkLife with Adam Grant

How Margaret Atwood Avoids Procrastinating

WorkLife with Adam Grant

How to Remember Anything

WorkLife with Adam Grant

A New Way to Think About Trust

WorkLife with Adam Grant

What Not to Say When Giving Criticism

WorkLife with Adam Grant

The Dangers of Faking Your Emotions

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Identify Your Strengths

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Turn a Moment that Drains You into One That Strengthens You

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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