Individual Rethinking
Scientists, preachers, prosecutors, and ____
What are politicians?
AI created by IBM to intelligently debate topics with facts and even counterarguments
What is Project Debater / Debra Jo Prectet (anagram by Grant)?
Columbia University is home to the Difficult _________ Lab
What is conversations?
What is the primitive 'lizard brain' that activates a flight or fight response in the human brain?
What is the amygdala?
"____ is peer pressure from dead people" - Unknown
What is Tradition?
Football fans who are convinced they know more than the coaches on the sidelines
What is armchair quarterback syndrome?
The power of _____ doesn't lie just in giving people the space to reflect on their views. It's a display of respect and expression of care.
What is listening?
The ______ effect - when the sage-on-stage preaches new thoughts but does not teach us to think for ourselves
What is the Dumbstruck / Awestruck effect?
"_____ effect, it's when we lack competence that we're most likely to be brimming with overconfidence"
What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?
"How can I tell what I _____ till I see what I say?" E.M. Forster
What is think?
An idea or assumption that matters greatly to us and our identities
What is a core belief?
Black musician responsible for convincing many white supremacists to leave the KKK
Who is Daryl Davis?
Groups that stir up a batch of oversimplified intellectual Kool Aid and recruit followers to serve it widely. Preach the merits of their pet concept and prosecute anyone who calls for nuance and complexity
What is an idea cult?
This is a basic human tendency to seek clarify and closure by simplifying a complex continuum into two categories
What is binary bias?
"Learning requires the ____ to realize one has something to learn"
What is humility?
High performing groups have low ______ conflict, however may have high _____ conflict
What is relationship conflict vs. task conflict?
With rivalries, Grant, Fragale, and Knowlton, found that thinking about the arbitrariness of their ________ mattered the most when dealing with rivalries.
What is animosity?
Rethinking is more likely to happen in a ________ culture, where growth is a core value and rethinking cycles are routine ... the norm is for people to know what they don't know, doubt existing practices, and stay curious
What is a learning culture?
In psychology, _____ thinking involves reimagining how to circumstances of our lives could have unfolded differently. When we realize how easily we could have held different stereotypes, we might be more willing to update our views.
What is counterfactual thinking?
"It's not a ___ if you believe it" - George Costanza, Seinfeld
What is a lie?
The __________ ego keeps out threatening information, such as when someone attacks our character or intelligence
What is the totalitarian ego?
This process involves:
- Asking open-ended questions
-Engaging in reflective listening
- Affirming the person's desire and ability to change
What is motivational interviewing?
When Grant was involved at a study at Google, he found that __________ ________ mattered the most for teams to have high performance and better well-being
What is psychological safety?
In 1959, Henry Murray led a study of Harvard sophomores who spent a couple of hours a week having their personal beliefs and ideologies attacked and debated. One student, codename Lawful, was unable to be persuaded, instead declaring they were damaged emotionally by the study. This student was later identified as _____
Who is Ted Kaczynski / the Unabomber?
"I see that you are back at your old trick of giving up before you are half beaten in an argument. I feel pretty certain of my own ground but was anticipating the pleasure of a good scrap before the matter was settled. ________ brings out new ways of looking at things" - Wilbur Wright
What is discussion?