Yet another book I’ve finished listening on the Libby App:

It is not my first Adam Grant’s book, my first was his “Originals” about 5.5 years ago and you can find my post-reading thoughts here on this post. He is an occupational psychologist, but this book isn’t just about “occupational”, and I’ve seen great reviews about this book on Twitters and other platforms, and how it changes people’s views about very general and specific things in life.

However, the fact that I listened to the book (instead of reading), and also the fact that it’s taken me almost 4 or 5 months (in between I completed other books too), just somehow shows that it isn’t a particularly engaging audiobooks, the feeling was like there were a lot of interesting facts and studies and findings being laid out and connected (a very, very well-researched book!), to emphasise the importance of … Thinking Again, no matter which area you’re talking about.

I probably would like to revisit it in the form of reading at some point, especially I guess it’s important in my journey of “constant learning and becoming better”. But right now, let me share some of the popular takeaways from the book:

“If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.”

“It takes confident humility to admit we’re a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.”

“A sign of intellect, is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts;

A mark of wisdom, is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right;

The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.”

I’ve heard about this book and intended to read it for quite many years, till recently, I finished listening to it on the Libby app.

This is its 20 year anniversary edition, I guess for a book that’s still fairly popular 20 years after it was first published, I do not have to say too much about it?

If you haven’t read it, it’s about life lessons from the author’s professor, Morrie, who was dying from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a progressive nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control – from Wikipedia). I have to say these are many lessons that we probably are aware already but shall still re-learn, and always re-learn. I hope one day I’d come back to read it again. I’ve also recommended the book to a client I have who was diagnosed with a similar Muscular dystrophy disease that’s also fatal…

If you listen to the audiobook, there’s excerpts from the interviews with Morrie, you get to hear exactly from him. I also like audiobooks that are read by the author.