
Changing Your Mind with Adam Grant
A Slight Change of Plans
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Are You Overconfident?
We don't like changing our minds, right? It's uncomfortable. It can create a lot of cognitive dissonance. And so it's just easier to live our lives in an unreflective mode where we persistently believe what we believe and we double down. So one reason you say that we might not be open to rethinking is because we're overconfident. You talk in your book about not confusing overconfidence with competence.
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