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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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The Negativity Bias

I think that a lot of people are willing to accept more negativity in order to get to higher performance. And I'm getting the sense that you don't have a clear definition of what high performance is when you call a football match. If you did, you would immediately be able to look at the fan comments or social media complaints and say which of these are relevant to whether I was successful today. So how do you define high performance as a commentator?

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