Luminous English

If you’re a firefighter, dropping your tools doesn’t just require

you to unlearn habits and disregard instincts. Discarding your

equipment means admitting failure and shedding part of your

identity. You have to rethink your goal in your job—and your role in

life. “Fires are not fought with bodies and bare hands, they are fought

with tools that are often distinctive trademarks of firefighters,”

organizational psychologist Karl Weick explains: “They are the

firefighter’s reason for being deployed in the first place. . . . Dropping

one’s tools creates an existential crisis. Without my tools, who am I?”

Wildland fires are relatively rare. Most of our lives don’t depend

on split-second decisions that force us to reimagine our tools as a

source of danger and a fire as a path to safety. Yet the challenge of

rethinking assumptions is surprisingly common—maybe even

common to all humans.

We all make the same kind of mistakes as smokejumpers and

firefighters, but the consequences are less dire and therefore often go

unnoticed. Our ways of thinking become habits that can weigh us

down, and we don’t bother to question them until it’s too late.

Expecting your squeaky brakes to keep working until they finally fail

on the freeway. Believing the stock market will keep going up after

analysts warn of an impending real estate bubble. Assuming your

marriage is fine despite your partner’s increasing emotional distance.

Feeling secure in your job even though some of your colleagues have

been laid off.

This book is about the value of rethinking. It’s about adopting

the kind of mental flexibility that saved Wagner Dodge’s life. It’s also

about succeeding where he failed: encouraging that same agility in

others.

You may not carry an ax or a shovel, but you do have some

cognitive tools that you use regularly. They might be things you

know, assumptions you make, or opinions you hold. Some of them

aren’t just part of your job—they’re part of your sense of self.

Consider a group of students who built what has been called

Harvard’s first online social network. Before they arrived at college,

they had already connected more than an eighth of the entering

freshman class in an “e-group.” But once they got to Cambridge, they

abandoned the network and shut it down. Five years later Mark

Zuckerberg started Facebook on the same campus.

From time to time, the students who created the original e-group

have felt some pangs of regret. I know, because I was one of the

cofounders of that group.

Let’s be clear: I never would have had the vision for what

Facebook became. In hindsight, though, my friends and I clearly

missed a series of chances for rethinking the potential of our

platform. Our first instinct was to use the e-group to make new

friends for ourselves; we didn’t consider whether it would be of

interest to students at other schools or in life beyond school. Our

well-learned habit was to use online tools to connect with people far

away; once we lived within walking distance on the same campus, we

figured we no longer needed the e-group. Although one of the

cofounders was studying computer science and another early

member had already founded a successful tech startup, we made the

flawed assumption that an online social network was a passing

hobby, not a huge part of the future of the internet. Since I didn’t

know how to code, I didn’t have the tools to build something more

sophisticated. Launching a company wasn’t part of my identity

anyway: I saw myself as a college freshman, not a budding

entrepreneur.

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📚هایلایت قسمت 06 کتاب Think Again

(قسمت ششم مقدمه)

✅ dropping : انداختن

✅ unlearn : کنار گذاشتن آموخته ها

✅ disregard : نادیده گرفتن

✅ instincts : حس غریزه

✅ discarding : انداختن

✅ equipment : تجهیزات

✅ admitting : پذیرفتن

✅ shedding : رها کردن

✅ identity : هویت

✅ rethink : تجدید نظر کردن

✅ distinctive : متمایز کننده

✅ trademark : خصیصه

✅ psychologist : روانشناس

✅ existential : وجودی

✅ crisis : بحران

✅ relatively : نسبتا

✅ split- second decision: تصمیم لحظه ای

✅ reimagine : دوباره تصور کردن

✅ assumption : فرضیه

✅ surprisingly common: خیلی رایج

✅ consequences : پیامدها

✅ dire: وخیم

✅ freeway : آزاد راه

✅ real estate :ملک 

✅ bubble : حباب

✅ assuming : فرض کردن

✅ increasing : رو به افزایش

✅ emotional : احساسی

✅ colleagues : همکاران

✅ agility : چابکی

✅ shovel : بیل

✅ consider: فکر کردن

✅ social network: شبکه اجتماعی

✅ freshman : سال اولی

✅ abandon: رها کردن

✅ campus : محوطه دانشگاهی

✅ regret : حسرت

✅ cofounder : بنیانگذار

✅ hindsight : با نگاهی به گذشته

✅ potential : پتانسیل

✅ flawed : اشتباه

✅ huge : بزرگ

✅ sophisticated : پیچیده

✅ budding: در حال شکوفایی 

✅ entrepreneur : کار آفرین

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