📚 3 Books mentioned in ""ONLY The 1% MASTER THIS ONE Skill For SUCCESS!" | Adam Grant & Jay Shetty" of On Purpose with Jay Shetty

i've started telling people that you know i've i've increasingly noticed myself this is a great example of self-persuasion right i wrote a whole book about how we need to watch out for slipping into these other mindsets

Adam Grant refers to the book he wrote about the mindsets (preacher, prosecutor, politician, scientist).

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and then douglas adams wrote about it in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right that the only person we should want as a president is the one who had no interest in doing the job

Adam Grant mentions this book as an example of the idea that reluctant leaders can be effective, connecting it to ancient Greek wisdom and empirical evidence.

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i went through the same thing with think like a monk so i i had pretty much every publisher an imprint that i went to meet tell me they didn't think the book should be called think like a monk are you serious that is one of the best book titles i've ever seen no seriously honestly and i was so insecure about it for a long time but even up until the day before we launched it because i'd heard that from like i met 17 imprints and i heard that from like 14 to 15 of the imprints uh that they believe that we should change the title they were just like well jay who wants to be a monk uh what does a monk mean to people and i and i was struggling with alternatives because this was the only true thing that the book was trying to do yeah and and i felt was was my unique offering in the world that i'm i'm trying to you know pass along and so it's so hard and and you know i i'm glad that we stuck with it uh but i've rethought it a million times you know so it was it was very i was very scared up until like the day we got like results in and all the last rest of it i was so scared well it sounds like the imprints you met you met with were not your target audience but i i actually think it's an ingenious title for the exact reason that they're highlighting which is i don't think most people want to be monks but we all aspire to have the wisdom and also the equanimity that that you model and so the idea that i could even if i i don't have the patience or the discipline to immerse myself in a spiritual tradition like that that i could learn to think more like one that's that's right at my fingertips right yeah well you're my target adam adam you're always gonna be my target from now on no i love that title i think that anybody who told you to rethink it clearly should rethink their role in titling books i love that well thank you thank you for that all right question number three we've been spending so long on these it's great but i love it sorry uh no no no it's great question number three is what's the worst piece of advice you've ever received the worst piece of advice that i ever received was not to give credit to undergraduate co-authors on a paper i was writing because they were just research assistants and everyone has them wow interesting that's a great one thank you for sharing that what's the worst piece of advice you've ever given someone the worst piece of advice i've ever given someone is probably don't go back to school ah interesting okay i i should talk to you about that i've been thinking of going back to school so it's interesting for what that's a big question which i could go into all the there's like three different areas that i'm fascinated by and i think i don't know enough again i don't know enough about what i would end up studying if i end up choosing any of the three um you know broad terms neurosciences is definitely one of them i'm i'm fascinated by my passion's always been to find the the juxtaposition or the intersection between timeless wisdom and modern science and so for me i'm always trying to find like i love reading studies about how meditation impacts the brain how a lot of my old monk practices affect the brain and so neuroscience is definitely one of the big ones i'm i'm behavioral economic economics books have just been my my passion forever and so anything around human behavior but but wanting to know what to study so i'm still exploring it but it i shared it with you prematurely but it's definitely been something i've been considering so it's good to hear you say that so i like that i like that a lot uh this is a longer conversation but when you have a moment look up a colleague of mine named michael platt okay he's uh he's an economic neuroscientist and he basically he uses brain imaging to understand behavioral economics oh wow there are a few others like him and i wonder if that's a synthesis of your interests oh that's great well thank you for sharing i will definitely pick your brain properly when when please do i look forward to that i thank you so much i really appreciate that and and fifth and final question uh what is something that you don't know about yet that you're fascinated to learn about this is such a long list i think one one thing that is just a total i'll give you a macro and a micro one and you can pick on the micro side i really want to know why it is that you can't tickle yourself that's genius i i everyone's trying it right now at home right like everyone's they're all i've i've i've asked neuroscientists i've run google searches cannot get to the bottom of this one so that's the next book tickle tickle something yeah maybe the best i'm not sure i'm the person to write that book but i definitely want to read it the the best answer i heard was well you can't surprise yourself and you know if you go to tickle yourself your brain already knows it's going to happen wow it took me about four seconds to debunk that because i said you know what jay i'm going to tickle you right now did you still laugh you would have right and so even if you know it's coming doesn't seem to matter yeah anyway that's one thing i would love to understand better should we do a macro one two yeah tell us macro too i love that that's a great answer there it's fun bigger picture i think one of the things i'm curious about is how we how we can establish some common ground across very partisan divides for example you know take any political leader that you think is great or terrible today the moment that you try to point out flaws in their character or shortcomings in their competence people accuse you of being partisan yeah and i would like to have an independent standard where we say look this is what we mean by leadership skill this is how we judge values so that we could try to get on the same page i love that and i hope you're going to create what that is and and then we start using that i think that's such a not just noble approach but but it's what's needed right now the the idea to look at things objectively without sentimentality without attachment without you know to be really approach something and go well what is best for everyone uh and and to approach conversations like that in that in in a way driven through data but but also through intuition that would be amazing so i think it would be fun we need to ask you jay before we wrap yeah one thing that i'm adding to my list as i as i do the the book tour is i would love to know something you think that i should be rethinking oh okay that's that's that's fascinating uh what do i think you should be rethinking this is hard do you know why this is hard because i agree with you on so many things well that's a mistake yeah that's you need to rethink it's like i've read i've read all your books and like i i find them so fascinating and i agree with you and so much stuff i i think i don't know this is interesting and it's because i don't know this about you so so you may this may open up a whole other conversation because you're so open to so many things i would love to know how open or how much you've allowed spiritual thought to match your scientist mind into your life because i think someone who's as open as you and maybe you already have and you're like yeah i've already done that and that's why you are who you are but it would i would i would be fascinated because i just think that your i think your thoughts are already so spiritually evolved and if that's what you've got from studying organizational psychology and behavior then i'm fascinated to see what you'll go on to achieve with with that added to it so yeah that would be my my addition and thank you for asking it's a it's a it's a gaping hole in my learning in my and my really in my training too right which is anytime i came across spiritual ideas i would either you know look for evidence or i would say well how do you know and it's only more recently that i've recognized how many of the fundamental principles of psychology that have resonated with me do have these roots and very ancient religious traditions in philosophical wisdom and i think i have a lot to learn on that front no i love that you're you're extremely uh humble modest and and kind and so i love all the time we ever get to spend together adam i i recommend to everyone to please go and grab a copy of the book think again you will not regret it i i do believe that it's a skill that everyone needs right now and we need desperately in our careers relationships family the world you know leaders uh it's such a big need and i'm so glad that you're uh helping us think again so adam thank you so much is there anything else you want to share that you're like jay i have to share this and you haven't let me share it i'm open to that so no jay this has just been such a thrill i i will say since you raised the politician prosecutor preacher scientists i put together a little questionnaire that people could take to figure out where they stand and which of those modes they fall into most often so if anybody wants to take it it's just at adamgrant.net oh i love that yeah definitely i i love finding out more about myself so that that's great adamgrant.net if you want to go and figure out which of the prosecutor preacher politician or scientist you are so please go and we'll put that in the show notes as well adam thank you so much for tuning in uh and and so grateful to spend this time with you as always and excited for lunch or dinner next time i can't wait i thank you so much for having me thank you so much if you want even more videos just like this one make sure you subscribe and click on the boxes over here i'm also excited to let you know that you can now get my book think like a monk from think like a monkbook.com check below in the description to make sure you order today

Jay Shetty and Adam Grant discuss the challenges and merits of the title 'Think Like a Monk'.

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