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Think Again

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  • Author: Adam Grant
  • ASIN: B08H177WQP
  • ISBN: 0753553899
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H177WQP
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Highlights

it’s not so much changing your answer that improves your score as considering whether you should change it. — location: 118 ^ref-44000

You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That’s the sweet spot of confidence. — location: 647 ^ref-61060

What we want to attain is confident humility: having faith in our capability while appreciating that we may not have the right solution or even be addressing the right problem. That gives us enough doubt to reexamine our old knowledge and enough confidence to pursue new insights. — location: 651 ^ref-45600

Great thinkers don’t harbor doubts because they’re impostors. They maintain doubts because they know we’re all partially blind and they’re committed to improving their sight. — location: 740 ^ref-20063

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. — location: 869 ^ref-35975

the rookie mistake of falling victim to desirability bias, allowing his preference to cloud his judgment. — location: 963 ^ref-47674

When he makes a forecast, he also makes a list of the conditions in which it should hold true—as well as the conditions under which he would change his mind. He explains that this keeps him honest, preventing him from getting attached to a bad prediction. — location: 979 ^ref-45434

Most people immediately start with a straw man, poking holes in the weakest version of the other side’s case. He does the reverse: he considers the strongest version of their case, which is known as the steel man. — location: 1426 ^ref-25248

In most cases, the oppressed and marginalized have already done a great deal of contortion to fit in. — location: 1845 ^ref-34526

across a wide range of industries, grades are not a strong predictor of job performance. — location: 2533 ^ref-22118

One student put it eloquently: “I need time for my confusion.” — location: 2586 ^ref-62533

good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking. — location: 2633 ^ref-36665

It takes confident humility to admit that we’re a work in progress. — location: 2792 ^ref-7053

Focusing on results might be good for short-term performance, but it can be an obstacle to long-term learning. — location: 2811 ^ref-44395

Requiring proof is an enemy of progress. This is why companies like Amazon use a principle of disagree and commit. As Jeff Bezos explained it in an annual shareholder letter, instead of demanding convincing results, experiments start with asking people to make bets. “Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it?” — location: 2838 ^ref-45722

Psychologists find that passions are often developed, not discovered. In a study of entrepreneurs, the more effort they put into their startups, the more their enthusiasm about their businesses climbed each week. — location: 3084 ^ref-37515

By investing in learning and problem solving, we can develop our passions—and build the skills necessary to do the work and lead the lives we find worthwhile. — location: 3087 ^ref-5922

The simplest way to start rethinking our options is to question what we do daily. — location: 3131 ^ref-64098

“the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.” — location: 3205 ^ref-32910

In the face of any number of unknown and evolving threats, humility, doubt, and curiosity are vital to discovery. — location: 3216 ^ref-32937