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#43 Jennifer Garvey Berger: The Mental Habits of Effective Leaders

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Do You Know That You're Right?

"I think it's a practice of not believing our own press," he says. "Our brains are designed to simplify just without our noticing it." He teaches his clients to notice what certainty feels like in your body. When you have that feeling, take one more step and question it,. How could i be wrong? But what do i believe about this and how could I be wrong about that thing? And who might i listen to to just learn a little bit more?"

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What does it mean to recognize that at a high level, versus like, how do i put that into action? Do i need to calibrate my beliefs and say that, you know, i'm, you knowt 60 % on thi to uno 99 %, but i'm never a hundred % on anything that is maybe not, like a law of nature or something. And that way, i'm convincing myself that i'm open to changing my mind, and signalling to you that i'm open to changing my mind. How do you think about that? I
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think it's a practice, right? It's a practice of not believing our own press, not believing our own, our own brains. Because our brains are designed to simplify just without our noticing it. That's the one of the jobs of the brain, is to simplify a totally complex set of inputs so that we can make sense of them. But they the brain does that by convincing us that the thing that we believe we're seeing is true, and doesn't give us a lot of room to play with that. And so having it be a practice to notice, one of the things i teach my clients is to notice what certainty feels like in your body. Notice that, like, what does i feel like to know that you're right? Now? When you have that feeling, take one more step and question it. How could i be wrong? But what do i believe about this and how could i be wrong about that thing? And who might i listen to to just learn a little bit more? Because even when holding on to an idea that's mostly right, in the world of organizations, in the world of business to day, jes, in the world of families to day, in the world of friendship to day, or politics to day, we are rarely a hundred % right, because that rarely exists. Trying to at how can we be open to new possibilities even when we experience ourselves as right? That's it's a habit.

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