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#885 - Adam Grant - How To Overcome Your Fear Of Failure & Unlock Your Potential

2025/1/4
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Adam Grant: 本期节目探讨了克服对失败的恐惧以及如何发挥个人潜能。Grant 认为,许多看似天赋异禀的人,实际上是后天努力和机会的结果。他强调了创造机会和激发热情的重要性,并指出动机往往来自于早期教育者使学习变得有趣。他分享了自己在跳水运动中的经历,说明了优秀教练如何激发潜力,以及如何通过与过去的自己沟通来更好地应对不确定性。Grant 还谈到了意义的来源,认为意义来自于对他人有价值并被他人重视的感觉。他建议人们定期回顾积极的反馈,并设定每年要经历三次失败,以此来激励自己不断挑战。他还探讨了如何处理批评性意见,以及如何利用预后分析来避免失败。最后,Grant 强调了脆弱性的重要性,认为公开承认自己的缺点可以帮助他人更坦诚地提供反馈,并建议人们设定一个最低可接受的结果和一个远大的目标,以平衡成功与满足感。 Chris Willx: Willx 与 Grant 探讨了个人成长和潜能发挥的诸多方面,包括动机的来源、处理不确定性、克服对失败的恐惧、以及脆弱性的作用。Willx 分享了自己对批评性反馈的重视程度,以及如何通过与听众的直接联系来获得意义感。他还探讨了如何设定“担忧时间窗”来管理焦虑,以及如何通过反思而非反复琢磨来处理问题。Willx 还与 Grant 共同探讨了如何平衡对成功的追求与对满足感的渴望,以及如何从失败中学习。最后,Willx 总结了本期节目的核心观点,并对 Grant 的分享表示赞赏。

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This chapter explores the role of talent versus opportunity and motivation in achieving success. It challenges the common misconception that exceptional achievement is solely due to innate ability, highlighting the importance of passion, practice, and supportive environments.
  • Exceptional achievements are often a result of opportunity and motivation, not solely innate talent.
  • Early teachers and coaches play a crucial role in fostering passion and providing opportunities for practice.

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, professor at the Wharton School and an author.

Success is multi-layered. It involves challenges like overcoming nervousness, developing an appetite for risk-taking, and dealing with failures both privately and publicly—the list goes on. So how can we better navigate these hurdles to unlock our full potential?

Expect to learn why so many people fail to reach their true potential, what most people don’t realise about where meaning and motivation come from, how to deal with uncertainty better, how to get better at taking more risks, the key to dealing with failure, why being vulnerable around showing your strengths and weakness is crucial, the best advice on how to deal with and overcome nervousness and much more…

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