Download Audiobook Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant in English

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Quantity One New York Occasions Finest Vendor“This. That is the fitting guide for proper now. Sure, studying requires focus. However, unlearning and relearning requires way more – it requires selecting braveness over consolation. In Assume Once more, Adam Grant weaves collectively analysis and storytelling to assist us construct the mental and emotional muscle we have to keep curious sufficient concerning the world to truly change it. I’ve by no means felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.” (Brené Brown, PhD, primary New York Occasions best-selling writer of Dare to Lead)The very best-selling writer of Give and Take and Originals examines the essential artwork of rethinking: studying to query your opinions and open different folks’s minds, which may place you for excellence at work and knowledge in lifeIntelligence is often seen as the power to assume and be taught, however in a quickly altering world, there’s one other set of cognitive abilities that may matter extra: the power to rethink and unlearn. In our day by day lives, too many people favor the consolation of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We take heed to opinions that make us really feel good, as an alternative of concepts that make us assume laborious. We see disagreement as a risk to our egos, reasonably than a possibility to be taught. We encompass ourselves with individuals who agree with our conclusions, after we needs to be gravitating towards those that problem our thought course of. The result’s that our beliefs get brittle lengthy earlier than our bones. We predict an excessive amount of like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the opposite facet mistaken, and politicians campaigning for approval – and too little like scientists trying to find fact. Intelligence isn’t any remedy, and it may well even be a curse: being good at considering could make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we’re, the blinder to our personal limitations we are able to develop into.Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an skilled on opening different folks’s minds – and our personal. As Wharton’s top-rated professor and the bestselling writer of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one among his guiding ideas to argue like he is proper however hear like he is mistaken. With daring concepts and rigorous proof, he investigates how we are able to embrace the enjoyment of being mistaken, deliver nuance to charged conversations, and construct colleges, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You will learn the way a global debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to desert hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces involved dad and mom to immunize their youngsters, and Adam has coaxed Yankees followers to root for the Purple Sox. Assume Once more reveals that we do not have to consider every little thing we expect or internalize every little thing we really feel. It is an invite to let go of views which are now not serving us effectively and prize psychological flexibility over silly consistency. If information is energy, realizing what we do not know is knowledge.