# Review ## Review Date [[2022-11-30]] #note/sourcereview/book ## What is the thesis? We are biased to believe our previous thoughts as people and groups, but mostly our thoughts are incomplete or incorrect. We can take specific actions and build specific habits to reduce the likelihood of incorrect thinking being honored. ## Am I convinced and why? I do think we have a bias to trust our own brains. That bias is essential for our survival since [[we are all the hero of our own story]]. Can we systematically reduce that bias with certain actions and frames of thinking? I think so. ## Summarize the argument [[don't believe everything you think]], since your bias is towards believing yourself, you need to build systems that help you to disconfirm when appropriate. Injecting just a little doubt into your thinking will go far in allowing you to be a better thinker. - ## What is the other side of the argument? - The world (from your perspective) does revolve around you. You do have a unique perspective that should be valued. ## What else do I wonder about? - What about making a list of [[cognitive biases]] and ways to reduce their likelihood when alone and in groups? [[Thinking as a group vs thinking as an individual]] ## Action - Make my [[overcoming bias]] table #### Think Again: Actions for Impact ##### Individual: - Think like a scientist - treat emerging views as hypothesis to test with data - Define identity in terms of values not opinions - someone who values flexibility - Seek information that goes against my views - Follow people who make you think - Don’t confuse confidence with competence - How well can you explain a subject - Harness doubt for growth - Be confident in ability to learn, not what you know - Embrace joy of being wrong - Sign we just discovered something new - Learn something new from everyone you meet ##### Start conversations with times you’ve changed your mind - Build a challenge network, not a support network - Tell them the ways their challenging you has been helpful ##### Practice art of [[persuasive listening]], show an interest in helping people question their own views increase question to comment ratio [[ask about how something would work instead of why they believe it]] Ask what evidence would change their mind - Ask how they originally formed this opinion? - How would they believe differently if they were born in a different time or place? - Acknowledge common ground - Admit points of convergence - Less is more in arguments, use only your most compelling points  - Reinforce freedom of choice - People resist the feeling of behavior being controlled more than the actual ideas - Have a conversation about the conversation ![[collective rethinking]] ##### Life thinking again Throw out 10 year plan - Plan just 1 step ahead to stay open - Rethink actions not just surroundings, don’t trade circumstances, focus on staying on purpose - Schedule Life Checkups  - Ask your challenge network for things you should think again ## When do I want to stumble across this? ## Source: ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[Think Again]] and !outgoing([[Think Again]]) sort file.mtime desc ``` Grant, A. (2021). _Think again: The power of knowing what you don’t know_. WH Allen.