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John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

FromReThinking


John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

FromReThinking

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Do you pay attention to your attention? John Green is the beloved author of The Fault In Our Stars, and when he started tracking his attention, he realized he was obsessed with evaluating human progress. He decided to start rating everything—from the capacity for human wonder to Canadian geese—on a five-point scale. In this deeply thoughtful conversation with Adam, John shares what he learned from his series of Yelp-style reviews, the gift of a great book, and the unexpected life lessons found in the last lap of Mario Kart. Read the full text transcript at go.ted.com/T4G8
Released:
Jun 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (96)

As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant loves to rethink ideas that we’ve taken for granted. In this special series from WorkLife with Adam Grant, he brings curiosity and science to conversations with his favorite thinkers about the opinions and assumptions we should all be revisiting. Listen in—you might just be inspired to walk away from some of your old views and embrace some new ones.