Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

by Adam M. Grant

At some point, you’ve probably heard that if you drop a frog in a pot of scalding hot water, it will immediately leap out. But if you drop the frog in lukewarm water and gradually raise the temperature, the frog will die. It lacks the ability to rethink the situation, and doesn’t realize the threat until it’s too late.

Believing the stock market will keep going up after analysts warn of an impending real estate bubble. Assuming your marriage is fine despite your partner’s increasing emotional distance. Feeling secure in your job even though some of your colleagues have been laid off.

No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again.

One of my beliefs is that we shouldn’t be open-minded in every circumstance.