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By asking questions rather than thinking for the audience, we invite them to join us as a partner and think for themselves.
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As a general rule, it’s those with greater power who need to do more of the rethinking, both because they’re more likely to privilege their own perspectives and because their perspectives are more likely to go unquestioned.
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Rethinking needs to become a regular habit. Unfortunately, traditional methods of education don’t always allow students to form that habit.
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Achieving excellence in school often requires mastering old ways of thinking. Building an influential career demands new ways of thinking.
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…good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.
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Rethinking is not just an individual skill. It’s a collective capability, and it depends heavily on an organization’s culture.
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A bad decision process is based on shallow thinking. A good process is grounded in deep thinking and rethinking, enabling people to form and express independent opinions.
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The goal in a learning culture is to welcome these kinds of experiments, to make rethinking so familiar that it becomes routine.
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Rethinking is more likely when we separate the initial decision makers from the later decision evaluators.
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When we dedicate ourselves to a plan and it isn’t going as we hoped, our first instinct isn’t usually to rethink it.
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