Think again: the power of knowing what you don’t know by adam grant

The irony of this book about building your ability to admit that you might be wrong, is the fact that in order for its lessons to be useful, you already need to be willing to admit that you might be wrong and the book might be right.

Still, it was an incredibly fast read filled with lots of nuggets. As with other books on this list about thinking, I’ve realized that I’m still not doing it very well. But that’s the whole point of Think Again. We’re at our best when we are continually learning, continually growing, and by consequence, continually changing.

The book also advocates for a “Challenge Team” which is very close to the Tenth Man concept that we have extolled the virtues of on our podcast (Episode 078 The Tenth Man). A little bit different in execution, but the same basic concept, and more importantly, the same result: a better idea.

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