Performance & Mindset

The Adam Grant Framework

Original Thinking & Rethinking

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Adam Grant built systems for compounding progress that outperformed more talented peers who relied on motivation. Adam Grant's approach to identity, habit, and output — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The original thinking & rethinking framework distils Adam Grant's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Adam Grant made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Adam Grant's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Adam Grant's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Most people fail to think originally not because they lack creativity, but because they're trapped by false consensus and premature cognitive commitment. The highest performers actively cultivate doubt about their own ideas while creating psychological safety for others to challenge them. Authority comes not from being right, but from being willing to be wrong in service of finding better answers.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What evidence would change my mind about this?"

4 more questions in Adam Grant's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Adam Grant Would NOT Do · sample
Dismiss criticism as "negativity" or "not being a team player"

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Adam Grant actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Adam Grant's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Adam Grant, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • adam-grant.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • adam-grant-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Adam Grant. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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