You may have heard the popular belief that if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out immediately. But if you put the same frog in lukewarm water and then heat the pot little by little, the frog will cook and die. The frog does ...
You may have heard the popular belief that if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out immediately. But if you put the same frog in lukewarm water and then heat the pot little by little, the frog will cook and die. The frog does not have the ability to reconsider the situation and by the time he realizes the threat it is already too late.
It's not the frogs that can't do positioning; we are
Imagine you are sitting on a multiple-choice exam right now and, because you took a little extra time, you doubt one of your answers. Should you trust your initial guess or should you change your mind? About three-quarters of students think that changing an answer will lower their score. With all due respect to experience, I prefer the accuracy of the evidence. When a group of three psychologists comprehensively examined the research, they found that in all the studies, most of the respondents changed the wrong answers to the right ones. This phenomenon is called the primary sham fallacy. The second answer is not inherently better; It is better because students are only willing to change their initial answer when they are completely sure of the correctness of the new answer. But new research gives another explanation: just changing the answer does not improve the score, but thinking about changing the answer improves the score.
The latest book by Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, and professor at the Wharton Business School, is an invitation to ignore knowledge and opinions that are no longer very helpful. In Rethinking, he shows that if we can master the art of rethinking, we will have better opportunities for success at work and happiness in life. Rethinking helps to find new solutions for old problems and to use old solutions to solve new problems. The pinnacle of wisdom is knowing when to let go of some of our most valuable tools, some of the most precious pieces of our identity.
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