The problem with these mindsets is that we get so caught up in defending our beliefs that we donвЂ™t take into consideration that our ideas are old and need to be rethought or are just wrong. Finally, you have the politician, where you seek to win over the audience through campaigning and lobbying.Then enters the prosecutor that finds the flaws in other people's reasoning and argues why their belief is wrong and unjust.The preacher delivers sermons about why our sacred belief is the true and only one.Each vigorously defends our stance but in different ways: Grant believes that if someone confronts us with a different perspective than our own, we usually fall into one of three different mindsets: The preacher, prosecutor or politician. As a result, we tend to favor information that confirms our existing beliefs and ideas - in other words, confirmation bias.

The author shares that we have a tendency to want to be comfortable in our thoughts. GrantвЂ™s premise is that there is another cognitive skill that is just as essential and most likely more important: The ability to rethink and unlearn. Grant, a professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of Business, a #1 New York Times Bestselling author and a podcaster, has also written Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You DonвЂ™t Know. But in the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexityВ and ambiguity) world that we live in now, people, scientists and - more specifically - author Adam Grant believe we need to вЂњ think again.вЂќ People see the ability to think and learn as the most crucial skill one can possess.

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