What Adam Grant thinks about Attachment theory

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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1. 9 Aug 2026

   Our readingPeople pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.

   Their wordsPeople pleasing is based on insecure attachment. We become people pleasers when we discover that others only value us when we're cooperative to the point of being submissive and deferential.

   ↗The Truth About People Pleasingadamgrant.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece