Book Titles

Think Again
The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know

By Adam Grant

Year Published: 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-9848-7810-6
Categories: Change, Knowledge, Thinking

203 Quotes Found

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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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The accelerating pace of change means that we need to question our beliefs more readily than ever before.

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Vintage records, classic cars, and antique clocks might be valuable collectibles, but outdated facts are mental fossils that are best abandoned.

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Unfortunately, when it comes to our own knowledge and opinions, we often favor feeling right over being right.

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In everyday life, we make many diagnoses of our own, ranging from whom we hire to whom we marry. We need to develop the habit of forming our own second opinion.

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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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We move into scientist mode when we’re searching for the truth: we run experiments to test hypotheses and discover knowledge.

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Just as you don’t have to be a professional scientist to reason like one, being a professional scientist doesn’t guarantee that someone will use the tools of their training.

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The better you are at crunching numbers, the more spectacularly you fail at analyzing patterns that contradict your views.

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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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