The Forest Service agreed, "firefighters would have reached the top of the ridge before the fire." A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to let go of some of your most precious tools—and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.
Individual Rethinking
A Preacher, a Prosecutor, a Politician, and a Scientist Walk into Your Mind
It makes sense in a stable world where we are rewarded for having conviction in our ideas. We just have to remember to get them out of the shed and remove the rust.
SECOND THOUGHTS
The financial advisor believed enough that he had invested his own money in the fund. He could have analyzed the fund's strategy more systematically instead of just relying on the results.
A DIFFERENT PAIR OF GOGGLES
The entrepreneurs in the control group tended to stay true to their original strategies and products. As the iPhone soared onto the scene, Mike kept his faith in the features that made the BlackBerry a sensation in the past.
THE SMARTER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FAIL
In preacher mode, changing your mind is a sign of moral weakness; in scientist mode, it is a sign of intellectual integrity. That said, I think most of us would benefit from being open more often, because in scientist mode we gain mental agility.
DON’T STOP UNBELIEVING
We laughed and said they're trying to put a computer on a phone, it won't work," the letter said. That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard." The team had recognized that mobile phones were beginning to have the ability to play music, but Jobs was concerned about cannibalizing Apple's thriving iPod business.
The Armchair Quarterback and the Impostor
When confronted with their blindness in a rather pointed way, they would either deny any visual problems or remark: “It's so dark in the room;. My vision is not too good, but I can see properly." The patients would not accept any demonstration or assurance that would prove their blindness.
A TALE OF TWO SYNDROMES
As Iceland's prime minister from 1991 to 2004, Oddsson compromised the country's banks by privatizing them. Nevertheless, Oddsson announced his candidacy for the presidency of Iceland in 2016: "My experience and knowledge, which is considerable, can go well with this office."
THE IGNORANCE OF ARROGANCE
Compared to most people, how much do you think you know about each of the following topics—more, less, or the same. As Dunning says, "The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you don't know you're a member of the Dunning-Kruger Club."*.
STRANDED AT THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT STUPID
We also tend to be overconfident in situations where experience is easily mistaken for expertise, such as driving, typing, trivia, and managing emotions. We are trapped in a beginner's bubble of false assumptions where we are unaware of our own ignorance.
WHAT GOLDILOCKS GOT WRONG
One of the Latin roots of humility means "from the earth." It's about being grounded—knowing that we are flawed and fallible. We are blinded by arrogance when we are completely sure of our own strengths and strategies.
THE BENEFITS OF DOUBT
But one of my newly formed beliefs is that sometimes it's better to underestimate ourselves. When we don't believe we will win, we have nothing to lose by rethinking our strategy.
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY HUMILITY
Scammers rarely say, 'This is how we do things around here.' They don't say, 'This is the right way.' I was so eager to learn and grow that I asked everyone for advice on how to do things differently. .”. They maintain their doubts because they know we are all partially blind, and they strive to improve their vision.
The Joy of Being Wrong
To determine how candidates would handle pressure, he sent them to a basement to be interviewed with a bright light shining in their faces. They deceived me and told me there was going to be a discussion, when in fact there was an attack,” he wrote.
THE DICTATOR POLICING YOUR THOUGHTS
In a classic paper, sociologist Murray Davis argued that when ideas survive, it is not because they are true, but because they are true. When an idea or assumption doesn't make much sense to us, we're often excited to question it.
ATTACHMENT ISSUES
I assume you wouldn't want to see a doctor whose identity is Professional Lobotomist, send your kids to a teacher whose identity is Corporal Punisher, or live in a town where the police chief's identity it's Stop-and-Frisk. You want the doctor whose identity is protecting health, the teacher whose identity is helping students learn, and the police chief whose identity is promoting safety and justice.
THE YODA EFFECT: “YOU MUST UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED”
It's surprising," Jean-Pierre wrote early in 2015, that so many forecasters are "still in denial about his possibilities." As Trump began to rise in the August polls, Jean-Pierre was motivated to ask himself.
The Good Fight Club
This did not prevent them from conflicting at first: they did not hesitate to display competing perspectives. A meta-analysis of these studies showed that relationship conflict is generally bad for performance, but some task conflict can be beneficial: it is linked to higher creativity and smarter choices.
THE PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PLEASER
Disagreeable people tend to be more critical, skeptical, and challenging, and more likely to become engineers or lawyers than their peers. Friendly people make for a great support network: they are eager to cheer us on and cheer for us.
DON’T AGREE TO DISAGREE
In fact, when I argue with someone, it's not a show of disrespect—it's a sign of respect. Pleasant people were significantly more accommodating than unpleasant people—as long as they were in a cooperative team.
GETTING HOT WITHOUT GETTING MAD
The Wright brothers had the advantage of growing up in a family where disagreements were seen as productive and entertaining. Eventually, they identified problems with both of their approaches and realized that they were both wrong.
Interpersonal Rethinking
Dances with Foes
You give dishonest and exaggerated profit to those individuals who belong to the middle class. In the public poll after the debate, the number of undecided people was the same, but the balance of opinion shifted from Debra's point of view to Harish's.
THE SCIENCE OF THE DEAL
If you can match your movements to hers and get her to do the same, you are more likely to end up in rhythm. In a war, our goal is to gain ground rather than lose it, so we are often afraid to give up some battles.
DANCING TO THE SAME BEAT
The computer had learned to make a logical argument and even anticipate the other side's counterargument. However, she had not learned to agree with elements of the other side's argument, presumably because this behavior was so rarely propagated in 400 million articles by humans.
DON’T STEP ON THEIR TOES
Focusing on common ground and avoiding defense-offense spirals were not the only ways in which Harish resembled an expert negotiator. Me: You can disagree with the data, but I don't think that's a respectful way to express your opinion.
THE STRENGTH OF WEAK OPINIONS
Frankly, I'm a little confused by your reaction to my credentials - if you don't appreciate the kind of work I do, why did you hire me. They realized they weren't looking for a set of skills and credentials—they were looking to hire a human being with it.
Bad Blood on the Diamond
When the man pulled out his KKK membership card to show he wasn't kidding, Daryl returned to a question that had been on his mind since he was ten years old. In the late 1960s, he was marching in a Cub Scout parade when white spectators began throwing cans, rocks and bottles at him.
HATE ME OUT AT THE BALLGAME
I started to wonder if Red Sox fans hate the Yankees more than they love their team. I recently called a friend who is a die-hard Red Sox fan with a simple question: what would it take to get him to root for the Yankees.
FITTING IN AND STANDING OUT
NOT IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
When you circle the entire planet in ninety minutes, you see the thin blue arc of the atmosphere. When you get an overview of Earth from outer space, you realize that you share a common identity with all humans.
FEELING FOR OUR FOES
I think this person is very genuine and a rare Yankee fan,” one Red Sox fan commented. A Yankees fan,” complained a third fan, but “I think I would have more in common with this person than the typical, stereotypical Yankees fan.
BEASTS OF HABIT
People who were randomly assigned to reflect on the arbitrariness of their stereotypes chose the less fiery hot sauce for their rival's stadium. We also gave them a chance to sabotage a rival fan's performance on a timed, paid math test by assigning harder problems, and those who took into account the arbitrariness of their stereotypes chose easier questions for the rival fan.
ENTERING A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
What kind of opinion would you have if you were raised on a farm, compared to the opinions in a city or in a culture on the other side of the world. Some evidence has just surfaced that if you are a Virgo in China, you are discriminated against in hiring and dating too.
HOW A BLACK MUSICIAN CONFRONTS WHITE SUPREMACISTS
When the Cyclops protested that he had never killed anyone, Daryl turned his own argument against him, saying that his serial killer genes must be latent. Cyclops ended up leaving the KKK and giving his hood and robes to Daryl.
Vaccine Whisperers and Mild- Mannered Interrogators
Today in the developed world, measles is on the rise for the first time in at least half a century, and its death rate is about one in a thousand. When little Tobie was finally allowed to leave after five months in hospital, he was still extremely vulnerable.
MOTIVATING THROUGH INTERVIEWING
In Arnaud's next experiment, whose mothers participated in a motivational interviewing session, children were 9 percent more likely to be fully vaccinated two years later. Soon the public health ministry invested millions of dollars in Arnaud's motivational interviewing program with a plan to send vaccine whisperers into the maternity wards of every hospital in Quebec.
BEYOND THE CLINIC
It is not difficult to understand how motivational interviewing can be effective for consultants, doctors, therapists, teachers and coaches. When people have sought our assistance—or accepted that it is our job to help—we are in a position to earn their trust.
THE ART OF INFLUENTIAL LISTENING
When we show that we care about them and their goals, they are more willing to listen to us. When we succeed in changing someone's mind, we should not only ask if we are proud of what we have achieved.
Collective Rethinking
Charged Conversations
What you don't know is that there are different versions of the gun control article, and which one you read will have a big impact on whether you're on the same page about abortion. Knowing that there is another side is not enough to leave preachers doubting whether they are on the right side of morality, prosecutors questioning whether they are on the right side of the case, or.
SOME INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
It's true that complexity doesn't always make for great soundbites, but it does sound good. It is possible to be concerned about the situation while recognizing the variety of ways to improve it.*.
SOME CAVEATS AND CONTINGENCIES
Emotional intelligence appears to be beneficial in jobs that involve dealing with emotions, but less relevant—and. In an effort to set the record straight, I wrote a short LinkedIn post arguing that emotional intelligence is overrated.
MIXED FEELINGS
As you can see in the duo on the right, the productive conversations span a much more varied spectrum of emotions. In scientist mode it can be a refreshing truth; it means there are new possibilities for understanding and for progress.
Rewriting the Textbook
After opening her students' eyes to the fact that knowledge can evolve, Erin's next step was to show them that knowledge always evolves. To create a unit on expansion in the West, she created her own textbook section describing what it's like to be a high school senior.
LEARNING, INTERRUPTED
In the field of history education, there is a growing movement to ask questions that do not have a single correct answer. It's part of a broader movement to teach kids to think like fact-checkers: guidelines include (1) “questioning information rather than simply consuming it,” (2) “rejecting rank and.
THE DUMBSTRUCK EFFECT
On average, students scored half a letter grade worse under traditional lecture than through active learning. I just think it's a problem that lectures remain the dominant method of teaching in secondary and higher education.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF REPEATING
I decided it was time to change that and invite students to rethink part of the structure of the class itself. It has been proven time and time again that one of the best ways to learn is by teaching.
JACK OF ROUGH DRAFTS, MASTER OF CRAFTS
His vision was for them to become leaders of their own learning, just as they would in "do it yourself" (DIY) craft projects. These are the habits we develop as we keep revising our drafts and the skills we build to keep.
That’s Not the Way We’ve Always Done It
Luca managed to find his way back to the outer airlock hatch, using his memory and the tension in his chain. When it was finally safe to remove his helmet, it contained a liter and a half of water, but Luca was still alive.
I ERR, THEREFORE I LEARN
It's that basic fear of looking like a fool, asking questions that people just dismiss, or being told you don't know what you're talking about." It's non-judgmental - a straightforward expression of doubt and curiosity that doesn't put people on the defensive.
SAFE AT HOME GATES
In several companies, we randomly assigned some managers the task of asking their teams for constructive criticism. We advised them to tell their teams about a time when they benefited from constructive criticism and to identify areas where they are working to improve now.