Knowing everything versus thinking again

As I’m reading through Adam Grant’s excellent book Think Again, I keep being struck by one big thought — if Donald Trump had read this book, he might have been able to get reelected.

There are two big problems with that, of course: the book only recently came out, and “reading” versus “fully executing” content in a book are two different things. Still, let’s play along.

I used this same example in a similar post last month, but I think one of Trump’s biggest problems is that he wasn’t open to other experts, as he felt he knew “more than anybody” on a huge range of topics. Items that he claimed he knew more about included:

• Campaign finance
• TV ratings
• ISIS
• Social media
• Courts
• Lawsuits
• Politicians
• The visa system
• Trade
• The U.S. government system
• Renewable energy
• Taxes
• Debt
• Money
• Infrastructure
• Sen. Cory Booker
• Borders
• Democrats
• Construction