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259 - Think Again - Adam Grant (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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The Ability to Rethink and Unlearn

I like this concept that if you focus on IQ or raw intelligence, there's always a new guru popping up. I want to talk about this ability to rethink and how under stress we tend to default back to the things that are the most solidly burnt into our neural systems. And it's difficult to develop this metacognitive skill of overriding that reaction to things.

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