Think Again

The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

De: Adam Grant

Narrado por: Adam Grant

#1 New York Times Bestseller

“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.”
—Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Originals, and Give and Take examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

Worth listening to

Interesting & worth your time. Got a little slow a couple times, but picked up again. In the end I decided to do the book again & pass on a recommendation to my daughter & friends to read.

Time to Think again

Good reminder to rethink your priorities and beliefs. The book is short enough to digest quickly but still has good poignant examples

Insightful and Heloful

Entertaining. Grant offers many excellent examples of how we all can rethink our views and engage others to help us understand their different views. It’s a dance not a battle.

An important book to remind us that humility and acceptance of the truth are our true way forward

What a great discovery. I am almost ashamed of discovering the immense work of Adam Grant this late. Yet, it came into my professional life at just the right time. As a trained scientist, it is such a great reminder of why I appreciate the scientific approach so much and also, why the business world has, in many cases, lost its way, away from scientific thinking. Just like books such as In Search of Meaning by Thierry Pauchant et all, and Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats by Patricia Pritcher or Primal Leadership by Goldman and Boyatzis and Mackee, Think Again sums up so many key realities of life and brings us back to the essence of our humanity.

Loved the ideas in this book

I think the only improvement I would make to the book is to give an alternative to asking what a child/teen wants to be when they grow up. Though I’m pretty sure Adam was very thoughtful about how he approached this, I now need to know what I should say to graduating seniors!! 😂