The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant How This Podcast Could Fail
96 snips
Mar 26, 2026 They imagine ways their collaboration could fail and run a premortem to surface hidden risks. They unpack how sarcasm, teasing, and differing communication styles create misunderstandings. They compare personality frames and systems thinking to explain recurring conflicts. They brainstorm concrete failure modes like misaligned goals, unspoken expectations, and design disagreements.
AI Snips
Chapters
Books
Transcript
Episode notes
Brené's Premortem Before Parenthood
- Brené and her husband did a premortem before their first child, naming who they wanted to be and what they'd avoid as parents.
- They wrote down commitments like saying yes when possible and distinguishing trauma from adversity.
Premortems Reveal Predictable Classroom Failures
- Teaching premortems to students surfaces common failure modes early, like passive responsibility for learning.
- Adam uses mid-course evaluations as a de facto premortem to reshape future class expectations.
Four Concrete Ways The Podcast Could Fail
- Their top failure risks: misalignment on goals, getting too wonky, mistiming content, and lacking communication processes.
- These reflect tensions between being timely vs timeless and scholarly depth vs audience accessibility.
