Name: 為什麼有些人總覺得自己是對的？ ► 小心陷入「思考陷阱」.. - Adam Grant 亞當·格蘭特 （中英字幕）
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The worst problem in humanity is the addiction to being right.

You've already concluded that other people are wrong.

To-infinitive

too many of their waking hours thinking like preachers, prosecutors, and politicians.

When you go into preacher mode, you're proselytizing your own ideas.

In prosecutor mode, you're attacking somebody else's ideas.

And in politician mode, you don't even bother to listen to people unless they already agree with your ideas.

I find that most people have a dominant style that gets them in trouble.

If I think you're wrong, like it is my professional and moral responsibility to correct you.

Which never goes well and I've even been called a logic bully, which my wife had to explain to me was not a compliment.

She's like, you don't have to pressure test every single point that's made.

Sometimes you can listen and learn from other people

as opposed to duking it out to try to figure out who's right.

I think it's such an important note because in prosecutor mode, you've already concluded that other people are wrong, and you're right, so you lose the ability to open your mind, and the same thing happens if you're preaching or politicking.

You're basically drinking your own Kool-Aid or listening only to your own tribe and trapping yourself in an echo chamber.

And so I got really curious about how do we get out of those modes?

And my favorite alternative is to think more like a scientist.

When I say think like a scientist, I do not mean that you need to buy a microscope

I mean that you don't let your ideas become your identity.

You recognize every opinion you hold, it's just a hypothesis.

Every decision you make, just an experiment.

And when you do that, it turns out when people people can be taught to think more like scientists, when you teach people to see their opinions as hypotheses.

They're quicker to recognize that they're wrong, and that means they're quicker to get it right.

A colleague once told me that the worst problem he sees in humanity is the addiction to being right.

And I think it's much more important to focus on getting it right than being right.

One of the ways you do that is you do not let your beliefs become part of your self-concept.

People are like, wait, who are you if you're not what you think?

What's the difference between values and beliefs?

Beliefs are what you think is true. Values are what you think is important.

And I think this is such a critical distinction because when you start to base your identity, your sense of self and your your your ego and your self-esteem and self-worth

on what you think is true, then admitting you were wrong is a major threat.

Whereas when you start to see yourself as someone who values curiosity or is a lifelong learner,

now changing your mind is a moment of growth.

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