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Sunday Pick: Kristen Bell on delivering honesty with empathy | from ReThinking with Adam Grant

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TED Talks Daily
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May 31, 2026
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Summary

On today's "Sunday Pick" on TED Talks Daily, we're bring you an episode from the TED Podcast ReThinking with Adam Grant . You probably know Kristen Bell as the star behind characters like Veronica Mars, Princess Anna from Frozen , and Eleanor from The Good Place . In this episode, Adam sits down with Kristen live at BetterUp’s Uplift leadership summit to examine how she’s learning to overcome her people pleasing tendencies and stop internalizing other people’s emotions. Kristen gets in character to demonstrate how to be honest without being unkind. She also makes the case that compliments are underrated, opens up about her strategies for dealing with envy, and offers a surprising theory of why we overexplain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.