The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by Adam Grant
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American journalist
Recommended by 10 notable people, including Ankur Warikoo and Malcolm Gladwell
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Think Again reads like an extended TED talk: brisk, anecdote-driven, and relentlessly actionable. Grant argues that mental flexibility is a trainable skill, using stories from entrepreneurs, athletes, and musicians to show how rethinking pays off and how overconfidence backfires. The most useful parts are the concrete scripts for inviting disagreement and updating your views. The limitation: the book can feel like a compilation of greatest hits from organizational psychology, with some sections dragging as examples pile on without deepening.
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We need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.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 agoFor too many of us, our ways of thinking beco...
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Recommended by 13 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Leadership, and Psychology.
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