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Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets.
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The problem is that we live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.
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Rethinking is a skill set, but it’s also a mindset. We already have many of the mental tools we need. We just have to remember to get them out of the shed and remove the rust.
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As we think and talk, we often slip into the mindsets of three different professions: preachers, prosecutors, and politicians.
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Mental horsepower doesn’t guarantee mental dexterity. No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again.
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The brighter you are, the harder it can be to see your own limitations. Being good at thinking can make you worse at rethinking.
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Scientific thinking favors humility over pride, doubt over certainty, curiosity over closure.
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When we shift out of scientist mode, the rethinking cycle breaks down, giving way to an overconfidence cycle.
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Our convictions can lock us in prisons of our own making. The solution is not to decelerate our thinking – it’s to accelerate our rethinking.
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…we need to learn to recognize our cognitive blind spots and revise our thinking accordingly.
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