Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

PROLOGUE-PART 1, CHAPTER 1

Reading Check

1. What job was Wagner Dodge doing in 1949?

2. What company did Mike Lazaridis found?

3. What does Grant call the mode of thinking that tries to prove others wrong?

4. What profession does Grant think we should all learn to think like?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How did Wagner Dodge save his own life?

2. How does Grant distinguish mental fitness from intelligence?

3. Why are Grant’s ideas about leadership counterintuitive?

4. According to Grant, to what biases are intelligent people especially susceptible because of their overconfidence?

Paired Resource

“How to Think Like a Scientist: A Crash Course”

• This article from Cedars-Sinai explores the different facets of how scientists think.
• This resource relates to the theme of Thinking Like a Scientist.
• This article reveals what scientists themselves believe about Thinking Like a Scientist. What additional ideas does this article add to the portrayal of scientific thought that Grant offers in his book? Are these additional ideas relevant to the main point Grant is illustrating using scientists? What does this tell you about the particular