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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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Published: Thu Oct 08 2020
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Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything | Brought to you by "5-Bullet Friday" Please enjoy this special episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, featuring the superhuman Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) and his podcast with TED, WorkLife.Many of you have heard my interview with Adam, which was one of the most popular interviews of 2019. I titled that podcast “The Man Who Does Everything” because Adam seems to accomplish more than the next 10 people combined, and he has built systems and habits that allow him to do this. Adam is an expert in how we can find motivation and meaning, and lead more generous and creative lives. He is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four books that have been translated into 35 languages: Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. His TED talks have been viewed more than 20 million times. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, and the Gates Foundation. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, is one of Fortune’s 40 under 40, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He’s received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. It goes on and on. The good news is that this isn’t all freakish genes and good luck; Adam uses uncommon tools and strategies for getting all of this done. You can find our previous episode about this at tim.blog/adamgrant. In Adam’s WorkLife podcast, he takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most unusual professionals to explore the science of making work not suck; put another way, how do you make work actually work for you? Adam and I share an intense interest in just how far—and easily—you can train your memory to do things that seem impossible, and I wanted to share with you an episode from Adam’s podcast titled “How to remember anything.” It is highly tactical.One last thing—for legal reasons, we didn’t have the flexibility to remove any mid-roll ads, so... Accenture, this one’s on me.Please enjoy the episode! You can subscribe to WorkLife with Adam Grant wherever you get your podcasts.*This episode is brought to you by “5-Bullet Friday,” my very own email newsletter, which every Friday features five bullet points of cool things I’ve found that week, including apps, books, documentaries, gadgets, albums, articles, TV shows, new hacks or tricks, and—of course—all sorts of weird stuff I’ve dug up from around the world. It’s free, it’s always going to be free, and you can subscribe now at tim.blog/friday.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In this episode of the Tim Ferris Show, Tim deconstructs Adam Grant's routines, habits, influences, books, techniques, tactics, etc.
00:00 - 02:12 (02:12)
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success
Summary

In this episode of the Tim Ferris Show, Tim deconstructs Adam Grant's routines, habits, influences, books, techniques, tactics, etc. Adam Grant is a renowned management thinker, bestselling author, and host of the WorkLife podcast, where he explores the science of making work more enjoyable.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show
A weekly newsletter featuring five of the coolest things found by the author, which can include apps, books, supplements, and gadgets, among others.
02:12 - 06:32 (04:20)
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Newsletter
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A weekly newsletter featuring five of the coolest things found by the author, which can include apps, books, supplements, and gadgets, among others. It also offers early access to startups, beta testing, special deals, and limited meetups for subscribers.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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The Tim Ferriss Show
Learn how to enhance your memory by utilizing memory techniques, such as the memory palace technique, to connect abstract words and ideas to concrete images.
06:32 - 13:05 (06:33)
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Memory Techniques
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Learn how to enhance your memory by utilizing memory techniques, such as the memory palace technique, to connect abstract words and ideas to concrete images. Discover how memory champions have trained their minds to perform astounding feats of memory.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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The Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker shares her personal experience and techniques for memorization through visualization which helps her to remember long lists and facts associated with specific topics.
13:05 - 21:42 (08:37)
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Memory improvement
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The speaker shares her personal experience and techniques for memorization through visualization which helps her to remember long lists and facts associated with specific topics.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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The Tim Ferriss Show
By bringing your true self to work, you can be more productive, happier, and more engaged in the work you do.
21:42 - 26:40 (04:57)
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Workplace Culture
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By bringing your true self to work, you can be more productive, happier, and more engaged in the work you do. Research shows that putting up a facade at work can lead to emotional exhaustion.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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This episode explores the role of memory in organizational culture and how century-old companies rely on their collective and institutional memory to shape the present and future.
26:40 - 35:34 (08:54)
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Organizational Culture
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This episode explores the role of memory in organizational culture and how century-old companies rely on their collective and institutional memory to shape the present and future.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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The Tim Ferriss Show
In this episode, the host summarizes the research on encoding learning through teaching, testing, and relaxing, with contributions from Christian Jarrett, Ulrich Bozer, and David Robeson.
35:34 - 37:58 (02:24)
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Memory
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In this episode, the host summarizes the research on encoding learning through teaching, testing, and relaxing, with contributions from Christian Jarrett, Ulrich Bozer, and David Robeson. The episode also touches on the phenomena of kleptomnesia, where individuals misremember other people's ideas as their own.

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#471: Adam Grant — How to Remember Anything
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The Tim Ferriss Show