Think Again Quotes

“applying rethinking to different parts of our lives, so that we can keep learning at every stage of our lives.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“If you try too hard to lead, your partner will resist. If you can adapt your moves to hers, and get her to do the same, you’re more likely to end up in rhythm.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Yet psychologists find that one of the hallmarks of an open mind is responding to confusion with curiosity and interest.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“I loved the idea.* For a book about rethinking, it seemed delightfully meta. Like the Seinfeld coffee table book about coffee tables—or the time when Ryan Gosling wore a shirt with a photo of Macaulay Culkin, and Macaulay Culkin one-upped him by wearing a shirt with a picture of Ryan Gosling wearing that shirt.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Although Jobs knew how to “think different,” it was his team that did much of the rethinking. In 2004, a small group of engineers, designers, and marketers pitched Jobs on turning their hit product, the iPod, into a phone. “Why the f@*& would we want to do that?” Jobs snapped. “That is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Although Jobs knew how to “think different,” it was his team that did much of the rethinking.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“He wanted them to learn with him.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“I’ll leave it to you to decide who lacked the sense of humor. When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“happiness depends more on the frequency of positive emotions than their intensity.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

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

“People gain humility when they reflect on how different circumstances could have led them to different beliefs.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Circling the entire planet in ninety minutes, you see that thin blue arc of the atmosphere. Seeing how fragile the little layer is in which all of humankind exists, you can easily from space see the connection between someone on one side of the planet to someone on the other—and there are no borders evident.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“In an analysis of some hundred thousand media articles on climate change between 2000 and 2016, prominent climate contrarians received disproportionate coverage: they were featured 49 percent more often than expert scientists.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“I’ve learned that two kinds of detachment are especially useful: detaching your present from your past and detaching your opinions from your identity.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Visions for change are more compelling when they include visions of continuity.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“In 2011, you consumed about five times as much information per day as you would have just a quarter century earlier.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“When they define themselves by values rather than opinions, they buy themselves the flexibility to update their practices in light of new evidence.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe. Values are your core principles in life—they might be excellence and generosity, freedom and fairness, or security and integrity. Basing your identity on these kinds of principles enables you to remain open-minded”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“when I argue with someone, it’s not a display of disrespect—it’s a sign of respect. It means I value their views enough to contest them. If their opinions didn’t matter to me, I wouldn’t bother.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

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

“pay more attention to how strong evidence is and spend more time reading material that contradicts their opinions. In rigorous studies of leadership effectiveness across the United States and China,”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias: seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias: seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth. We find reasons to preach our faith more deeply, prosecute our case more passionately, and ride the tidal wave of our political party. The tragedy is that we’re usually unaware of the resulting flaws in our thinking.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“What’s surprising about these results is that we typically celebrate great entrepreneurs and leaders for being strong-minded and clear-sighted. They’re supposed to be paragons of conviction: decisive and certain. Yet evidence reveals that when business executives compete in tournaments to price products, the best strategists are actually slow and unsure.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“it doesn’t matter “whose fault it is that something is broken if it’s your responsibility to fix it,” actor Will Smith has said. “Taking responsibility is taking your power back.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas. It protects us against the Dunning-Kruger effect. “Impostor syndrome always keeps me on my toes and growing because I never think I know it all,”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

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

“They’re informed by a six-page memo that lays out a problem, the different approaches that have been considered in the past, and how the proposed solutions serve the customer. At the start of the meeting, to avoid groupthink, everyone reads the memo silently.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Amy Edmondson finds that when psychological safety exists without accountability, people tend to stay within their comfort zone, and when there’s accountability but not safety, people tend to stay silent in an anxiety zone. When we combine the two, we create a learning zone.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know