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==Personal life== |
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While in graduate school, Grant married his wife Allison; the couple has two daughters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Award Citation|url=https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/AdamGrant-AmericanPsychologist.pdf|publisher=American Psychologist|accessdate=March 23, 2017}}</ref> |
While in graduate school, Grant married his wife Allison; the couple has two daughters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Award Citation|url=https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/AdamGrant-AmericanPsychologist.pdf|publisher=American Psychologist|accessdate=March 23, 2017}}</ref> |
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== Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know == |
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=== Overview: === |
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The book '''''Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know''''' is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. In this book Grant argues that while intelligence and learning is a skill that is important and takes effort - to unlearn and be able to examine multiple perspectives is undervalued in today's world. He argues that as people we can fall under the trap of simply surrounding ourselves with people and ideas that reconfirm the way we think and feel. In this book, Grant provides examples on how we can appreciate being a part of disagreement and challenge our own ways of thinking and emotions, ultimately teaching the reader to develop mental flexibility. |
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=== Chapter Summary: === |
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==== Prologue ==== |
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* In the prologue Grant begins by discussing how the out of the fifteen men that were dropped from the Montana Sky, three of the smokejumpers survived. Grant argues that out of all the smokejumpers, Dodge specifically survived due to his mental fitness. He was able to build an escape fire, a strategy he crafted with his mind that was able to save his life. |
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*"''When people reflect on what it takes to be mentally fit, the first idea that comes to mind is usually intelligence. The smarter you are, the more complex problems you can solve- and the faster you can solve them. Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn."'' <ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Grant|first=Adam|title=Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know|publisher=Viking|year=2021|isbn=1984878107}}</ref> |
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*Grant comments that we are hesitate to rethink our thoughts and ideas about our deep rooted beliefs and emotions but very normally change our opinions about our furniture, clothes and other materialistic things. He writes,"''Psychologists call it seizing and freezing: We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt, and we let our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We laugh at people who still use Windows 95, yet we cling to opinions that we formed in 1995. We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard."'' <ref name=":1" /> |
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== Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. == |
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== Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. == |
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== Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success == |
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== See also == |
== See also == |
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