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Notes on Think Again, by Adam Grant.
## Chapter 3
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### Main idea
- People build more developed belief systems and improve if they are willing to challenge their beliefs.
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- It's unhealthy to hold beliefs and defend them so aggressively
- Being wrong and recognizing that is healthy
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- Recognize when a reaction is emotional, and a defense of the ego, rather than intellectual, and a defense of the idea.
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- Do not base a personality around ideas, base it around broad, positive values. The material changes, but values can be applied to the material in infinite ways.
### Personal reflection
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I believe I would identify more with the group that adapted to challenges, although I