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“How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others. The power lies in its frankness. It’s nonjudgmental—a straightforward expression of doubt and curiosity that doesn’t put people on the defensive.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“The less intelligent we are in a particular domain, the more we seem to overestimate our actual intelligence in that domain.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“founder Ray Dalio told me, “If you don’t look back at yourself and think, ‘Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,’ then you must not have learned much in the last year.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“When we dedicate ourselves to a plan and it isn’t going as we hoped, our first instinct isn’t usually to rethink it. Instead, we tend to double down and sink more resources in the plan. This pattern is called escalation of commitment. Evidence shows that entrepreneurs persist with failing strategies when they should pivot, NBA general managers and coaches keep investing in new contracts and more playing time for draft busts, and politicians continue sending soldiers to wars that didn’t need to be fought in the first place.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know