Book Titles

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.

Research shows that when people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same.

Visions for change are more compelling when they include visions of continuity.

The curse of knowledge is that it closes our minds to what we don’t know. Good judgment depends on having the skill – and the will – to open our minds.

We all have blind spots in our knowledge and opinions. The bad news is that they can leave us blind to our blindness, which gives us false confidence…

…we need to learn to recognize our cognitive blind spots and revise our thinking accordingly.

In theory, confidence and competence go hand in hand. In practice, they often diverge.

In a meta-analysis of ninety-five studies involving over a hundred thousand people, women typically underestimated their leadership skills, while men overestimated their skills.

The opposite of armchair quarterback syndrome is imposter syndrome, where competence exceeds confidence.

…in many situations, those who can’t… don’t know they can’t.