Think Again
Think Again is a book about the benefit of doubt, and about how we can get better at embracing the unknown and the joy of being wrong. Evidence has shown that creative geniuses are not attached to one identity, but constantly willing to rethink their stances and that leaders who admit they don't know something and seek critical feedback lead more productive and innovative teams. New evidence shows us that as a mindset and a skilllset, rethinking can be taught and Grant explains how to develop the necessary qualities to do it. Section 1 explores why we struggle to think again and how we can learn to do it as individuals, arguing that 'grit' alone can actually be counterproductive. Section 2 discusses how we can help others think again through learning about 'argument literacy'. And the final section 3 looks at how schools, businesses and governments fall short in building cultures that encourage rethinking. In the end, learning to rethink may be the secret skill to give you the edge in a world changing faster than ever.
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2021–2026years
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- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover by Ryan Holiday- Think Again by Adam Grant - A book on how to rethink any/everything. I think a lot of us could read and apply the lessons from this book.
You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy - If you're like me and "listening" actually means "solutioning", read this book.
Longitude by Dava Sobel - The fascinating and infuriating story of how longitude was created/discovered/measured/whatever.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - I loved The Martian and after what felt like a misstep with Artemis this is a return to form.
- - Thinking Fast and Slow (been around for a while - I am just getting to it) - The 3 Body Problem, Dark Forest, and Death’s End - a SciFi Trilogy by Cixin Liu. A masterpiece. Read them back to back - Think Again, by Adam Grant
- Along a lot of other good things, achieving the appropriate level of nuance is well covered in Adam Grant’s recent book Think Again. Highly recommended, and the author-narrated audiobook is excellent.
- >Given that virtually every researcher is focused on AI, now is the opportunity to make progress on any other topic.
>While everyone is researching AI, the software systems that quietly run our society continue to fail in ways that are neither rare nor surprising.
>In the 2021 book Think Again, organizational psychologist Adam Grant claimed, "Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively open-minded. It requires searching for reasons why we might be wrong, not for reasons why we must be right, and revising our views based on what we learn." Whether it is through this scientific approach or through random perturbations, we can't get stuck in local maxima.
I agree with this, sometimes the mainstream is pretty good, getting better, and so well-loved that its growth is "meta-sizing", but the most promising thing for more brilliant people to work on is something completely different.
- Looking at my Audible history it was either Think Again by Adam Grant or Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg. Can't remember exactly.
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