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September 10 - September 28, 2021
No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again.
Many studies across a range of industries have shown that once people are earning enough to meet their basic needs, paying them more doesn’t stop them from leaving bad jobs and bad bosses.
In the hierarchy of disagreement created by computer scientist Paul Graham,18 the highest form of argument is refuting the central point, and the lowest is name-calling. In a matter of seconds I’d devolved from logic bully to playground bully.
HOW A BLACK MUSICIAN CONFRONTS WHITE SUPREMACISTS One day, Daryl was driving his car with the chief officer of a KKK chapter, whose official title was Exalted Cyclops. Before long, the Cyclops was sharing his stereotypes of Black people. They were an inferior species, he said—they had smaller brains, which made them unintelligent, and a genetic predisposition toward violence. When Daryl pointed out that he was Black but had never shot anyone or stolen a car, the Cyclops told him his criminal gene must be latent. It hadn’t come out yet. Daryl decided to beat the Cyclops at his own game. He
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Difficult Conversations Lab.
Some teachers are determined to tailor their instruction accordingly despite decades of evidence that although students might enjoy listening,43 reading, or doing, they don’t actually learn better that way.
In performance cultures, the emphasis on results often undermines psychological safety.
If you’re interested in working on your rethinking skills, here are my top thirty practical takeaways.
Difficult Conversations Lab: Peter T. Coleman, The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts (New York: PublicAffairs, 2011).
