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What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity with Justin Gregg

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Is Asking Why Better Than How?

In your book, you make the case that asking why is overrated. You say science would be better off if we focused on asking how questions than why questions. I wonder if why questions are sometimes counterproductive. A how versus a why question is great. So many of the things that we convince ourselves are true, which are dangerously wrong, are because we've asked why,. But we don't question how we arrived at the why.

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