Think Again Quotes

“I believe that good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft. Like art, emotions are works in progress. It rarely serves us well to frame our first sketch. As we gain perspective, we revise what we feel. Sometimes we even start over from scratch.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Among managers rated as the worst listeners by their employees, 94 percent of them evaluated themselves as good or very good listeners.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Much like a vaccine inoculates our physical immune system against a virus, the act of resistance fortifies our psychological immune system. Refuting a point of view produces antibodies against future influence attempts.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“In the past year we’ve all had to put our mental pliability to the test. We’ve been forced to question assumptions that we had long taken for granted: That it’s safe to go to the hospital, eat in a restaurant, and hug our parents or grandparents. That live sports will always be on TV and most of us will never have to work remotely or homeschool our kids. That we can get toilet paper and hand sanitizer whenever we need them.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Mental horsepower doesn’t guarantee mental dexterity. No matter how much brainpower you have, if you lack the motivation to change your mind, you’ll miss many occasions to think again. Research reveals that the higher you score on an IQ test, the more likely you are to fall for stereotypes, because you’re faster at recognizing patterns. And recent experiments suggest that the smarter you are, the more you might struggle to update your beliefs. One study investigated whether being a math whiz makes you better at analyzing data. The answer is yes—if you’re told the data are about something bland, like a treatment for skin rashes. But what if the exact same data are labeled as focusing on an ideological issue that activates strong”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“As Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio told me, “If you don’t look back at yourself and think, ‘Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,’ then you must not have learned much in the last year.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“reasons why we might be wrong”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“What set great presidents apart was their intellectual curiosity and openness. They read widely and were as eager to learn about developments in biology, philosophy, architecture, and music as in domestic and foreign affairs.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The more anger and hostility the other person expresses, the more curiosity and interest you show.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“students”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Inverse charisma. What a wonderful turn of phrase to capture the magnetic quality of a great listener. Think about how rare that kind of listening is. Among managers rated as the worst listeners by their employees, 94 percent of them evaluated themselves as good or very good listeners.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well, and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“We’ve been forced to question assumptions that we had long taken for granted: That it’s safe to go to the hospital, eat in a restaurant, and hug our parents or grandparents.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Wildland fires are relatively rare. Most of our lives don’t depend on split-second decisions that force us to reimagine our tools as a source of danger and a fire as a path to safety. Yet the challenge of rethinking assumptions is surprisingly common—maybe even common to all humans”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“We all make the same kind of mistakes as smokejumpers and firefighters, but the consequences are less dire and therefore often go unnoticed. Our ways of thinking become habits that can weigh us down, and we don’t bother to question them until it’s too late.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Under acute stress, people typically revert to their automatic, well-learned responses. That’s evolutionarily adaptive—as long as you find yourself in the same kind of environment in which those reactions were necessary. If”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We laugh at people who still use Windows 95, yet we still cling to opinions that we formed in 1995.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“it’s not so much changing your answer that improves your score as considering whether you should change it. We don’t just hesitate to rethink our answers.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“With twin propellers spinning in divergent directions, our thinking doesn’t get stuck on the ground; it takes flight.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The first rule: avoiding an argument is bad manners. Silence disrespects the value of your views and our ability to have a civil disagreement.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“I’m looking for disagreeable people who are givers, not takers.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Taking responsibility is taking your power back.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“People who are right a lot listen a lot,37 and they change their mind a lot,” Jeff Bezos says. “If you don’t change your mind frequently, you’re going to be wrong a lot.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“A third potential factor is that when we hunt for happiness, we overemphasize pleasure at the expense of purpose. This theory is consistent with data suggesting that meaning is healthier than happiness, and that people who look for purpose in their work are more successful in pursuing their passions—and less likely to quit their jobs—than those who look for joy.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“we weren’t born with our opinions. Unlike our height or raw intelligence, we have full control over what we believe is true. We choose our views, and we can choose to rethink them any time we want.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“don’t have to wait for our confidence to rise to achieve challenging goals. We can build it through achieving challenging goals.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Third, feeling like an impostor can make us better learners.43 Having some doubts about our knowledge and skills takes us off a pedestal, encouraging us to seek out insights from others.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know