Adam Grant Teaches You The Right Way To Give And Take
am Grant is the youngest tenured and highest rated professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the excellent book, Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success. I spoke with Adam about how nice guys finish last and first, what really leads to expertise and how empathy can beat objectivity, among other things. Nice Guys Finish Last – And First Adam: The big idea is that there's three fundamental styles of interaction…
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Dan Ariely Explains When Your Irrational Behavior Is A Good Thing
bsp; Dan Ariely teaches psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and is the bestselling author of three books I love: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves Here's one of his TED talks: Dan has an online course called "A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior". You can check it out here. He and I spoke about…
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Interview – Harvard/MIT Lecturer Olivia Fox Cabane teaches you how to be more charismatic
ivia Fox Cabane is the author of The Charisma Myth. She's lectured on the subject at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Google and the United Nations. I spoke with her about how charisma works, the science behind it and how anyone can become more influential. For brevity’s sake I’m only going to post edited highlights here. Subscribers to my free weekly newsletter get access to extended interviews. Join here. ——————————————— How does charisma work? Eric: In The Charisma Myth you break down charisma into presence, power,…
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Howard Suber Of UCLA Film School Explains How To Tell A Story
bsp; Howard Suber is one of my mentors. He founded the graduate program I was in at UCLA and has taught literally thousands of students about the power of film and narrative structure. From his bio at UCLA: During his 40 years on the UCLA faculty, Howard Suber helped establish and also chaired the UCLA Film Archive, the Critical Studies and Ph.D. Programs, and the UCLA Producers Program. He is a former Associate Dean, recipient of UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and has been…
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NYT Bestselling Author Ramit Sethi explains the secrets to managing money, negotiating and networking
friend Ramit Sethi is the NYT bestselling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. He's also well known for his blog of the same name. What's always interested me about his work is that it's based on psychology and a strong, practical knowledge of how people really behave. Subscribers to my free weekly newsletter get access to extended interviews. Join here. ——————- The Secret to Managing Your Money: Systems And Big Wins Ramit: One of the things that I talk about…
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Silicon Valley’s Best Networker Teaches You His Secrets
might be surprising that I know Adam Rifkin. What's not surprising is that Adam Rifkin knows me -- because Adam knows everybody. In 2011 Fortune Magazine declared him the best networker in Silicon Valley. Adam is also one of the nicest, most sincere people I've ever met. He's currently CEO of his latest startup, Pandawhale. I talked to Adam about his thoughts on networking and how to get better at it. For brevity’s sake I’m only going to post…
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Interview – 5 lessons from a Ranger/Special Ops soldier about leadership and persistence
bsp; Ranger School has been called the "toughest combat course in the world." My friend Joe (2nd from the left above) graduated class 495 in Ranger School and was Special Operations for seven years. I interviewed him about leadership, attitude and what it takes to make it through such a punishing ordeal. He also reminded me what "Ranger Candy" is. The full interview was almost 90 minutes long, so for brevity’s sake I’m only going to post highlights here. Subscribers to my free weekly…
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Matthew Polly: What happens when you drop out of Princeton to move to the Shaolin Temple and master Kung Fu?
ntil a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped…
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