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Mark and Jeff explore Adam Grant's work on cognitive laziness and its impact on decision-making.

On this episode of Let's Pause, Mark and Jeff explore Adam Grant's seminal work, Think Again. Grant is a renowned organizational psychologist and in Think Again, he details why human being are cognitively lazy, seeking to economize and reduce our mental and emotional loads down to sound bites. The troubling result? Individual biases, cognitive distortions, and rigid thinking patterns that all reduce our ability to make thoughtful and accurate judgments. We unpack Grant's top strategies, inclu...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark, Jeff

Topics covered

• cognitive biases
• rigid thinking
• self-improvement
• organizational psychology
• mental load

Keywords

• cognitive distortions
• thoughtful judgments
• mental economy
• biases
• strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: organizational psychologist

Books & works: Think Again

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