"I have such a vivid memory of having my arm twisted to take your class when I didn't think personality was an important part of psychology, which is embarrassing and hindsight," he says. "It was sort of fortuitous that one of the first who said, can I talk to you? It was a guy called Adam Grant." He adds: "There's nobody I could have thought of who had more potential".
Award-winning researcher and pioneering psychologist Brian Little has plenty of accomplishments under his belt. He’s the author of the bestselling books “Me, Myself, and Us” and “Who Are You, Really?” His TED Talk on the science of personality has tens of millions of views and he’s been elected a Favorite Professor multiple times at Harvard. And he’s also Adam’s favorite psychologist – and personal mentor. Brian and Adam talk about how our personal projects shape our well-being, the nuances of introversion and extraversion, when it makes sense to act out of character, and what our daily pursuits reveal about us. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts