IF you are Work in Progress, Adam’s advice is a good companion!

Think again, is a book that obviously reinforces the importance of rethinking, and highlights perils of not revisiting one’s ideas and with offers advice on methods, tools, and networks that would facilitate rethinking.  It also REMINDS me of certain biases, habits, and fallacies that ones fall for, if not being made conscious from time to time. 

And that refresher course, provided with a new set of experiments, instances, and evidence, gives the necessary freshness to the read.  Most interesting are cases of prevalent first-instinct choices and counter-intuitive outcomes that may entail. 

Consider the following:

1.       Do you want your opinions and knowledge be made right, or wish (hence claim) that they are right?

2.        Do you wear an advocate and politician or scientist hat when looking at a situation?  

3.       Being competent and being confident are dependent or independent variables? If there is a causal relation, then what is the direction?

4.       Asking HOW helps reveal to the overconfident, his depth/shallowness of knowledge and need to know more?

5.       Only the secure identity harness the benefit of doubt, Can you?

6.       Is your opinion being proven wrong a question about hurt self-identity or joyous occasion of less wrong in the future?

7.       Is the team encountering a relationship conflicts or tasks conflict?

8.       Are you able to keep with the challengers because they care, and weed out insecure criticizers?

9.       Are your disagreements leading to debate or dispute?

10.   The more important the matter, do you rely on presenting more arguments in favor of your side, or few important ones, but explained at length?

11.   To solicit feedback, do u use the rating scale to peg response and seek ways to improve the score?

12.   Do u assume or ask what kind of evidence will allow others to open their position for a rethink?

13.   Stereotypes are rarely questioned by giving counter-evidence but often by asking how do you know? And what would it take to verify?

14.   Do u motivate someone to change or nudge someone to think their own reason to change?

15.   Do u base your motivational speech on assumptions, or actually listen through motivational interviewing?  DO you prefer telling what works for you or ask what worked for them in the past? 

16.   Attending lectures is an enjoyable experience, but does that translate into effective learning? Would active learning help you get better grades?

17.   How often do u present material that is open to iteration, refinement, and multiple feedbacks to come to better shape? Do u teach the patience to invite suggestions or embrace criticism?

18.   How do u marry psychological safety with accountability for results?

19.    Psychological safe teams make more errors or reveal more errors?

20.   How can u differentiate perseverance vs stubbornness in your stand?

You may be sure of the response to some of them, but in the spirit of think again, do validate with your critiques or take the easy route of checking with Adam!