I think admitting your wrong makes the world a little bit more unpredictable.

I'm Rufus Griskem, and this is the next big idea.

This week, Adam Grant changes his mind a lot, and he says you should too.

Picture this. You're on i70 driving across Maryland, and around Fredrick, you pull off because you

need gas or you've got a pee or whatever. Your first impression is probably that this is just

another quiet American town, the kind of place where nothing much happens to anybody.

But see that big windowless Costco just off the highway? It used to be a truck stop,

and that truck stop had a motel, and that motel had a bar called the silver dollar lounge.

And that's where a few decades ago, Darryl Davis's life changed forever.

I was playing music. I was my first time playing in this particular bar.

That's Darryl in an interview with NPR.

And this white gentleman approached me, and he says, I really enjoy your old music.

I thanked him, shook his hand. And he says, you know, this is the first time I ever heard a

black man play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis. Darryl was taken aback. He asked, where do you think

Jerry Lee Lewis learned to play? And the white guy said, I don't know, he must have invented it.

Darryl explained that some of Lewis's biggest influences were black musicians.

But as far as this guy was concerned, Darryl was the only black guy on the planet who could

tickle the keys the way Jerry Lee Lewis did, and that made him want to buy Darryl a drink.

And then he says, you know, this is the first time I ever sat down and had a drink with a black man.

Darryl took a closer look at his drinking partner. The guy had to be in his 40s.

How was it possible that he'd never, not one time, sat down and had a drink with a black man?

So Darryl asked him, why is that? The white guy didn't respond.

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