Think Again Quotes

“humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom,”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The natural starting point is to emphasize your strengths and downplay your weaknesses. As Michael Scott deadpan on the office: "I work too hard, i care too much, and sometimes I can be too invested in my job."

But Michelle did the opposite, taking a page out of the George Constanza playbook on Seinfeld. "My name is George, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."

Rather than trying to hide her shortcomings, Michelle opened with them.”
― Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Confident humility is a corrective lens: it enables us to overcome those weaknesses.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“we spend too much time striving for peak happiness, overlooking the fact that 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

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

“Part of the problem is cognitive laziness. Some psychologists point out that we’re mental misers:10 we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“En algunas de mis investigaciones realizadas en call centers, asociaciones sin ánimo de lucro y departamentos del Ejército o la Administración pública, he descubierto que la confianza puede volvernos demasiado complacientes.44 Si nunca nos preocupa la posibilidad de decepcionar a otras personas, tenemos muchas más probabilidades de acabar haciéndolo.”
― Adam M. Grant, Piénsalo otra vez

“Actions for Impact If you’re interested in working on your rethinking skills, here are my top thirty practical takeaways. I. INDIVIDUAL RETHINKING A. Develop the Habit of Thinking Again 1. Think like a scientist. When you start forming an opinion, resist the temptation to preach, prosecute, or politick. Treat your emerging view as a hunch or a hypothesis and test it with data. Like the entrepreneurs who learned to approach their business strategies as experiments, you’ll maintain the agility to pivot.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“He does the reverse: he considers the strongest version of their case, which is known as the steel man. A politician might occasionally adopt that tactic to pander or persuade, but like a good scientist, Harish does it to learn.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“part of the problem is cognitive laziness. some psychologists point out that we’re mental misers, we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable, it requires us to admit that the facts may have changed, that what was once right may now be wrong. reconsidering something we believe deeply can threaten our identities, making it feel as if we’re losing a part of ourselves. rethinking isn’t a struggle in every part of our lives, when it comes to our obsessions, we update with fervour, we refresh our wardrobes when they go out of style, and renovate our kitchens when they’re no longer in Vogue. when it comes to our knowledge and opinions though, we tend to stick to our guns. psychologists call this ceasing and freezing. we favour the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt and we let our beliefs brittle long before our bones”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Humility is often misunderstood. It’s not a matter of having low self-confidence. One of the Latin roots of humility means “from the earth.” It’s about being grounded—recognizing that we’re flawed and fallible. Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself. Evidence shows that’s distinct from how much you believe in your methods. You can be confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present. That’s the sweet spot of confidence. We become blinded by arrogance when we’re utterly convinced of our strengths and our strategies. We get paralyzed by doubt when we lack conviction in both. We can be consumed by an inferiority complex when we know the right method but feel uncertain about our ability to execute it. 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

“We get trapped in a beginner’s bubble of flawed assumptions, where we’re ignorant of our own ignorance.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“They were more likely to comment on their feelings about the process and test their understanding of the other side’s feelings: I’m disappointed in the way this discussion has unfolded—are you frustrated with it? I was hoping you’d see this proposal as fair—do I understand correctly that you don’t see any merit in this approach at all? Honestly, I’m a little confused by your reaction to my data—if you don’t value the kind of work I do, why did you hire me?”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Mais do que apenas se sentirem confortáveis em errar, eles gostam disso. Acho que seu comportamento pode nos ensinar um pouco sobre como sermos mais graciosos e tolerantes nos momentos em que descobrimos que nossas crenças podem não ser verdade. O objetivo não é cometer mais erros, mas reconhecer que todos nós erramos mais do que gostaríamos de admitir e que, quanto mais negamos isso, mais cavamos nossa própria cova.”
― Adam M. Grant, Pense de novo: O poder de saber o que você não sabe

“Aprendemos mais com pessoas que desafiam nosso raciocínio do que com as que reafirmam nossas conclusões. Líderes bem-sucedidos interagem com críticos e se fortalecem. Líderes fracos silenciam críticos e se enfraquecem.”
― Adam M. Grant, Pense de novo: O poder de saber o que você não sabe

“A arrogância nos cega para nossas fraquezas. A humildade é uma lente reflexiva, nos ajudando a enxergar com clareza. A humildade confiante é uma lente corretiva: ela nos ajuda a superar as fraquezas.”
― Adam M. Grant, Pense de novo: O poder de saber o que você não sabe

“Our identities are open systems, and so are our lives. We don’t have to stay tethered to old images of where we want to go or who we want to be.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“cultures of learning, we’re not weighed down with as many of these questions—which means we can live with fewer regrets.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Requiring proof is an enemy of progress”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“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

“It starts with showing more interest in other people’s interests rather than trying to judge their status or prove our own.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Psychologists find that many of our beliefs are cultural truisms: widely shared, but rarely questioned.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Although I’m terrified of hurting other people’s feelings, when it comes to challenging their thoughts, I have no fear. In fact, 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.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“If you don’t know a thing about football, you probably don’t walk around believing you know more than the coach. It’s when we progress from novice to amateur that we become overconfident.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. —Charles Darwin”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The problem is that we live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“As we question our current understanding, we become curious about what information we’re missing.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“Mental horsepower doesn’t guarantee mental dexterity.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know