Think Again
The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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4.6 • 50 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
If you can change your mind you can do anything.
Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago?
There's a new skill for the modern world that matters more than raw intelligence - the ability to change your mind. To have the edge we all need to develop the flexibility to unlearn old beliefs and adapt when the evidence and the world changes before us.
Told through fascinating stories, informed by cutting-edge research and illustratedwith amazing insights from Adam Grant's conversations with people such as Elon Musk, Hilary Clinton's campaign team, top CEOs and leading scientists, this is the ultimate guide to keeping your thinking fresh, learning when to question your ideas and update your own opinions, and how to inspire those around you to do the same.
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"Our ways of thinking become habits that can weigh us down, and we don't bother to question them until it's too late," warns psychologist Grant (The Gift Inside the Box) in this energetic guide. Learning to question one's assumptions requires a high level of "mental fitness," he writes, which can be learned. To that end, he urges readers to stay flexible and adapt to change by identifying and managing such emotions as defensiveness and anger. Grant offers no shortage of examples of people who have managed to change their own or others' minds, or those who have failed: Daryl Davis, for example, is a Black man who brought KKK members out of Klan membership by engaging them in thoughtful conversation, while Mike Lazaridis of Blackberry failed to adapt when he insisted no one would want an "entire computer" on their phone. In the way of advice, Grant encourages readers to develop intellectual humility, accept criticism of their work, and have a "challenge network" to prevent tunnel vision. Grant convincingly makes a case that it's possible to prevent "locking our life GPS onto a single target can give us the right directions to the wrong destination." His guide is reliably lively, convincing, and approachable.
Customer Reviews
Pushes your thinking boundaries
Adam Grant challenges you and your thinking all the time. This book has opened up new possibilities and new perspectives which I had never known of. Thank you for writing this book. Looking forward to your next book.
Think again!
Critical network, life plan, motivational questioning. Every sentence, will make you think!