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Grant: Expertise develops through communities of practice, not reading books
“You don't develop expertise just by, you know, by reading a book. Cause a lot of the expertise you need isn't written down anywhere yet. It's too early or it's just tacit knowledge where, you know, people in a profession haven't yet even figured out how to art…”
Grant: Work-life balance is easier to achieve over weeks or months, not daily
“If you are going to strive for balance, it's much easier to achieve at the week level or the month level.”
Adam Grant: Write down conditions that would change your tentative opinions
“When he forms a tentative opinion, will actually make a list of the conditions under which he would change his mind. And I've actually started doing this over the past few months because I don't want to get locked into something that was, you know, maybe sort …”
Pride in knowledge triggers confirmation bias and traps people in overconfidence
“The basic idea is we start by being proud of something that we think we know. And that leads us then to feel a lot of conviction. That kind of launches us into confirmation bias, where we look for information that confirms our expectations, as well as desirabi…”
Listing specific conditions to change opinions prevents locking into unhelpful beliefs
“When he forms a tentative opinion, will actually make a list of the conditions under which he would change his mind. And I've actually started doing this over the past few months because I don't want to get locked into something that was, you know, maybe sort …”
Expert negotiators focus far more time on finding common ground
“And the experts they spent far more time planning for and then talking about common ground was the first takeaway.”
Expert negotiators ask significantly more genuine questions than average negotiators
“Then a second difference that, that jumped out pretty clearly is the experts asked a lot more questions than the average negotiators. And they weren't leading questions. They were questions motivated by genuine curiosity.”
Grant: Over Half of People Identify as Workplace Matchers
“I found that over half of people identify this as their primary interaction style at work where they say, look, I don't want to be too selfish. I don't want to be too generous.”
Grant: Corning Fellows must author $100M patents and support others' patents
“And one of the first criteria is, are you the first author in a patent that's worth at least a hundred million US dollars?... So we're gonna say there are other criteria too, which include, are you a supporting author on other people's patents?”