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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant provides compelling insight into why we should spend time not just thinking, but rethinking. In this episode we cover how to change our own views, how to change the views of others, hiring processes, psychological safety, tribes and group identity, feigned knowledge, binary bias, and so much more.
Grant is a Professor of Psychology at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five books, including his most recent release, the New York Times bestseller Think Again. He also serves as the host of WorkLife, a TED original podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeah, you're entitled to your own opinion.

0:02.4

If you keep your opinion to yourself,

0:04.8

if you decide to say it out loud,

0:06.6

then I think you have a responsibility

0:08.6

to be open to changing your mind

0:10.8

in the face of better logic or stronger data.

0:13.4

And so I think if you're willing to voice an opinion,

0:15.7

you should also be willing to change that opinion.

0:17.8

It goes right back to something we talked about earlier,

0:20.0

which is to say, okay, when would I change my mind?

0:22.9

If you can't answer that question,

0:24.8

you are no longer thinking like a scientist,

0:26.8

so you've gone into preacher or prosecutor mode.

0:30.2

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0:44.2

Welcome to the Knowledge Project podcast.

0:46.2

I'm your host, Shane Parrish.

0:49.2

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0:51.4

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0:53.0

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0:55.1

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0:56.2

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0:58.0

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