Rethink: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know GML-C14118

GIVING AND TAKING and ORIGINALS, the author of these bestsellers, explores the critically important art of rethinking: Learning to question your own views and open the minds of others can lead you to excellence in your professional life and wisdom in your personal life.nbsp;Intelligence is often seen as the ability to think and learn, but in our rapidly changing world, there is another cognitive skill that is even more important: the ability to rethink and forget what you have learned. In our daily lives, most of us prefer the comfort of our beliefs to the discomfort of doubt. We prefer to listen to opinions that make us feel good, rather than ideas that force us to think deeply. We see disagreements not as an opportunity to learn, but as a threat to our ego. Instead of seeking out people who challenge our thought processes, we surround ourselves with those who validate our conclusions. As a result, we allow our beliefs to become harder to break than our bones. For much of our time, we behave like preachers defending sacred beliefs, prosecutors hunting down the faults of others, or politicians campaigning for approval, and only rarely do we think like scientists in pursuit of truth.Organisational psychologist Adam Grant explores how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, how we can make tense conversations more nuanced, and how we can build schools, workplaces, and communities made up of people who are open to lifelong learning, drawing on bold ideas and solid evidence.