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#399: Adam Grant — The Man Who Does Everything

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Create a User Manual of Yourself for Others

When working with a new person, it is important to understand their experiences and how to work effectively with them. To achieve this, one can create a one-pager user manual outlining their strengths, weaknesses, triggers, and moments that bring out the best in them. It is also valuable to ask the team to create their own user manual for self-awareness. By sharing this user manual with new team members, they can immediately adapt and work effectively with the individual. The speaker also created their own user manual by asking people who work with them to answer questions about their strengths, weaknesses, blind spots, and what they wished they had known earlier. Some interesting insights from this exercise included the speaker's intense reaction when someone pretends to know something they don't, and their unawareness of how their criticism of ideas may crush someone's invested faith. This process of creating a user manual can greatly enhance communication and understanding in a working relationship.

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