Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, is one of those very successful innovators we hold up as examples to our future leaders. He has certainly made mistakes but is also right a lot of the time.
And Bezos has noticed something about other people who make the right decisions most of the time: they are “people who often changed their minds”.
He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
So where do those “smartest people” learn those skills? It’s not what we do in school.
