The Value of Doubt and Rethinking: How Questioning Your Assumptions Lead To Better Outcomes
If you can hold a thought and examine its validity, you have a good grasp of rethinking. A good sign of mental fitness is if you can rethink your assumptions and your opinions. Thoughts are easy and automatic. To challenge them is harder.
In this book, Adam Grant talks about how rethinking happens and why it matters. In three sections, he talks about how you can open your own mind, how you can encourage other people to rethink, and how you can engage groups and communities to rethink.
The first section is about how to think like a scientist, the intersection of confidence and humility, the Joy of Being Wrong, and a good kind of conflict: task conflict. One topic is about Imposter syndrome and arrogance, which at their bases are doubt and confidence. You need some level of what drives both. Doubt lets you see your weaknesses. Arrogance makes you ignore them. Confident Humility is when you acknowledge your weaknesses and aim to improve them.
The second section is about the most effective ways to debate, how to diminish prejudice through the absurdity of fan animosity, and a better way of helping people to change called Motivational Interviewing. Sometimes people ignore advice because they’re resisting the sense of pressure that someone else is controlling their decision. Motivational Interviewing allows people to find their own motivation to change.
The third section is about how you can navigate polarizing discussions, how you can nurture curiosity thru active learning in classrooms, and on how you can create learning cultures at work by fostering psychological safety and process accountability.
A fourth section is about how you can rethink your future: your career and life plans. Field test and try out your dreams.
Why read Think Again?
You learn how to generate solutions. You learn how to have an open mind, how to question your assumptions, and how to make better decisions.
How can you use this information?
Channel doubt into curiosity. Be deliberate. Slow down and rethink. Don’t let your ideas or your ideology become your identity. You can stick to your values but be flexible in your execution.
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