684 - Adam Grant: Why do you need to THINK AGAIN when you're thinking!

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Do you always think you know more than you do? Have you ever go with your first instinct, but then you realize after, your instinct might not be the right now! In this episode, Adam Grant, an American psychologist, and the author of some of my favorite books including this new one that just releases, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, even Bill Gates called this a must-read! Came on to talk about this new book, Think Again, and break down why should we re-think when we are thinking, and what leads to him writing this amazing book! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.3	Sometimes I'll say something and I'll act as if I know what I'm talking about and I have
0:21.3	to take a step back and realize you know what?
0:23.3	I really don't know anything about this but I'm like talking like an expert and I see this
0:27.4	all the time in social media.
0:29.6	Like you ever noticed that after the pandemic started suddenly it seemed like everybody
0:33.4	on your Facebook feed or Twitter feed was a closet epidemiologist and you never realized
0:38.9	it?
0:39.9	Well, this new book is just a fantastic book about the errors we make that prevent us from
0:47.3	being successful and having people performance because we tend to think we know more than
0:53.5	we do.
0:54.5	That might not be describing it exactly.
0:56.4	The book's called Think Again and Bill Gates has called this a must read.
1:01.3	Adam Grant, professor at Wharton in the author of Give and Take, Originals, Option B,
1:06.6	which he co-wrote with Cheryl Sandberg, has written the book Think Again.
1:10.5	This is now one of my favorite books.
1:12.7	Like it's a book worth reading and rereading.
1:16.1	It's all about how to avoid different cognitive biases, how to have intellectual humility,
1:22.2	how to use these techniques and cognitive biases to know when you need to rethink something
1:27.8	or think a little deeper or ask better questions and what the results of doing that is.
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