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Are You a Giver or a Taker? | The Tony Robbins Podcast
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Are You a Giver or a Taker? - Tony Robbins Podcast Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, which means he meets with large companies to solve interpersonal problems. He’s a renowned professor at the Wharton School of Business and is a bestselling author to boot. We featured Adam on the Tony Robbins podcast to learn more about givers and takers. How can businesses get the most of their employees and vice versa? According to Adam Grant, it’s all about identifying givers and takers. Having written the book Give and Take, Adam Grant is a pro at identifying characteristics in others that can help us to categorize them as givers or takers in relationships. There are numerous things we look to as markers of success in our society. Is the person in question or being observed putting in the hard work necessary to succeed? Do they have an internal motivation or passion for the job? What type of talent or skill have they cultivated? Adam Grant believes that success is less dependent on these factors, and has more to do with how we interact with other people. We often associate givers with personality traits like kindness or approachability. Takers, on the other hand, can be stereotyped as selfish and critical. However, after doing extensive research, Grant found there’s no correlation between certain qualities and being a giver or taker. People tend to confuse agreeableness with being a giver, but that’s not the case. When looking to hire the right people for your business, instead of making assumptions about whether they’re a giver or taker, you need to look into what makes someone tick. Adam Grant says you can look to “kissing up” or “kicking down” — does this person try to suck up to management, but doesn’t give the people underneath them the time of day? Examine the emp…