You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. There's an insidious kind of bias that organizational psychologist Adam Grant wants us to confront. It's called the I'm not biased bias. In his talk from TED at BCG in 2021, he reminds us how important it is to rethink our assumptions and challenge ourselves in order

to adapt to the rapidly changing world.

Also, Adam shares his feelings about Game of Thrones, where you might have to agree to disagree.

If you want to dive deeper into this, check out our podcast, Work Life, or Adam's book, Think Again.

You might have heard that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it'll jump out

right away. But if you put it in lukewarm water and then slowly heat it up, the frog won't survive.

The frog's big problem is that it lacks the ability to rethink the situation. It doesn't

realize that the warm bath is becoming a death trap until it's too late. Humans might be smarter than

frogs, but our world is full of slow boiling pots. Think about how slow people were to react to

warnings about a pandemic, climate change, or a democracy in peril.

We fail to recognize the danger because we're reluctant to rethink the situation.

We struggle with rethinking in all kinds of situations.

We expect our squeaky brakes to keep working until they finally fail on the freeway.

We believe the stock market will keep going up,

even after we hear about a real estate bubble.

And we keep watching Game of Thrones,

even after the show jumps the shark.

Rethinking isn't a hurdle in every part of our lives.

We're happy to refresh our wardrobes and renovate our kitchens.

But when it comes to our goals, identities, and habits,

we tend to stick to our guns. And in a rapidly changing world, that's a huge problem. I'm an

organizational psychologist. It's my job to rethink how we work, lead, and live. But that hasn't

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