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Chrissy's avatar

🤣🤣 I hate April fools day because I am both gullible and earnest. True to form, I forgot what day it was while I was reading and definitely thought striving for 10x production of all things was all a little…anathema for you, but it still didn’t click until I got to the book titles. Absolutely hilarious and thanks for the morning laugh!

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Lucas Blower's avatar

The "shoot for the moon" saying has always irritated me. There are no stars between us and the moon. So, if you miss, and land among the stars, it's because your husk of a body has been floating as space debris for thousands of years.

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John Brennick's avatar

Whew, it took me a minute to realize it’s April Fool’s Day - I was worried about the a-holes winning book! šŸ˜‚

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DJ Butler's avatar

Beyond the April Fool's Joke, the real gem of what you shared beyond the humor was the links to some amazing content on what made you laugh. If there is something that I (and maybe many others need in this world right now is a good laugh), thanks for sharing!

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Lisa F Larson's avatar

April Fools Day generally sucks - esp this year as it falls on a Monday - esp this year when you wish that every news story could be a temporary April Fools joke. Unless you read Adam Grant's substack and click his included links. Best Day Ever

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Marsha Redmon's avatar

Love the parodies of your own books, covers and all! I laughed out loud Adam. Happy April!

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Angelika's avatar

Thank you for this. You made my day.

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Em's avatar

I'm glad the book on being a hopeless failure isn't real, for I would have felt like even more of one as I failed to read it šŸ˜…

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Joelle McNulty's avatar

This is hilarious. šŸ˜†

But in all seriousness, all the governerds are going to need to know how the suggested young readers' edition of Hidden Potential is coming along. šŸ˜

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Leslie K. Wright's avatar

Adam, thanks a lot for that dragon internship posting. As a college career counselor, aka "empathic breaker of dreams", I think it's a great opportunity for the right student. I bet that dragon has a huge network to leverage too. It's not whatcha know its whoya know, I always say.

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Tami Ellis's avatar

You made my day. Hearty laughs are all too few these days. Thanks, Adam.

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Anthea's avatar

Hope I was just sightly preoccupied or just more sluggish than usual while reading but it wasn’t until I got to Unoriginals that I realized well, you know, today’s date šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø Absolutely brilliant and links reads are pure gold (intern should include in application). THANK YOU!!

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VG Shri Rajini Prriya's avatar

That was a good one for April 1. For a minute, I was like ā€˜whats wrong with Mr. Grant’?

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Mary Ann McKenzie's avatar

I was all set to order Unoriginals. Thanks for the April Fool’s joke!

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Kirsten Powers's avatar

This was so perfect bc in todays America the productivity fetish is too real

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Chakriya Bowman's avatar

Please write ā€œTake and Takeā€ - seriously. It would be brilliant.

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