Think Again

“above all, try something”
: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at Oglethorpe University,” May 22,
1932, 
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-oglethorpe-university-atlanta-georgia
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“something unspecified is no better than nothing”
: “Hoover and Roosevelt,” New York Times,
May 24, 1932, 
www.nytimes.com/1932/05/24/archives/hoover-and-roosevelt.html
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act of political stupidity
: Paul Stephen Hudson, “A Call for ‘Bold Persistent Experimentation’:
FDR’s Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, 1932,” Georgia Historical Quarterly
(Summer 1994), 
https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/history/related_article/progressive-era-
world-war-ii-1901-1945/background-to-fdrs-ties-to-georgia/a-call-for-bold-persistent-
experimentation-fdrs-oglethorpe-university-comme
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: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen.
“JEEA-FBBVA Lecture 2013: The New Empirical Economics of Management,” Journal of the
European Economic Association 12, no. 4 (August 1, 2014): 835–76.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12094
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www.smbc-comics.com
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: C. Sanchez and D. Dunning. “Overconfidence Among Beginners: Is a Little Learning a
Dangerous Thing?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 114, no. 1 (2018), 10–28.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000102
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www.savagechickens.com
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: Calvin & Hobbes © 1993 Watterson. Reprinted with permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL
SYNDICATION. All rights reserved.
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: Non Sequitur © 2016 Wiley Ink, Inc. Dist. by ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION.
Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
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: A. Leiserowitz, E. Maibach, S. Rosenthal, J. Kotcher, P. Bergquist, M. Ballew, M. Goldberg,
and A. Gustafson. “Climate Change in the American Mind: November 2019.” Yale University and
George Mason University. New Haven, CT: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, 2019.
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Psychology Limited. Illustration drawn May 2020. London, United Kingdom. / Edmondson, A. C.
(2011, April). From “Strategies for Learning from Failure,” Harvard Business Review.
https://hbr.org/2011/04/strategies-for-learning-from-failure
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International copyright laws. Reproduction and distribution of the illustration without prior written
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INDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take
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corresponding reference on your e-reader.
Page numbers in italics refer to charts and illustrations.
abortion, conversations on, 
163
–64, 
165
–66
active learning, 
186
–88
lectures vs., 
190
–93, 
196
addiction:
motivational interviewing as tool for combating, 
149
as reinforced by failed arguments against, 
146
agreeableness, 
81
–82
as barrier to rethinking, 
83
social harmony vs. cognitive consensus in, 
89