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E164 - Adam Grant: Why you should stop trying to prove yourself and start trying to improve yourself

The High Performance Podcast

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Make Your Comeback Bigger Than Your Setback

"I can't convince them that I wasn't nervous or that, you know, I come across as really smooth on stage. All I can do is try to make a better impression the next time," she says. "A colleague Sheila Heen told me there's a name for what I was doing: You're giving yourself a second score": an A plus for how well it takes C minus. An entrepreneur once said 'make your comeback bigger than your setback'

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