“For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

American popular science author and professor of organizational psychology

Adam M. Grant is an American popular science author and professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for writing about work, motivation, and how people and organizations can improve performance and make better decisions. His writing draws on organizational psychology and is aimed at a broad audience, which has made him a familiar name in contemporary popular nonfiction.