Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam Grant argues that the skills which built your success may be precisely what kills you when circumstances shift. Wagner Dodge survived the Mann Gulch fire by inventing an escape technique in seconds; twelve smokejumpers died running because they couldn't unlearn their training fast enough. From Mike Lazaridis dismissing the iPhone while BlackBerry collapsed, to Stephen Greenspan—the world's leading gullibility expert—losing his savings to Madoff, Grant reveals how preacher, prosecutor, and politician modes trap even brilliant minds. Confident humility is the alternative.

You'll learn:

- Why rethinking frequency triples predictive power beyond raw intelligence

- How motivational interviewing changed an anti-vaxxer's entire community

- What task conflict taught the Wright brothers about being wrong together