"We don't live in a stable world anymore. We live in a rapidly changing, turbulent world. And in a dynamic environment, intelligence is not just your ability to think and learn, it's your capacity to rethink and unlearn."

Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, podcaster, and author of the bestseller "Think Again", tells us why we are wrong in many of our assumptions about today's world, and why we would all benefit from tackling our own biases - not least the "I'm-not-biased" bias.

And he explains why the wrong sorts of people too often get promoted or elected to positions of power.

Adam spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.

Links:

Think Again: https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/

Books Adam mentions:

Factfulness: https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/

The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature

Not the End of the World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of-the-world

Related podcasts:

ReThinking: Talking people out of hate with Daryl Davis and former neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/rethinking-talking-people-out-of-hate-with-daryl/id1346314086?i=1000737195636

Radio Davos: AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/yoshua-bengio-honest-ai/

Meet the Leader at 200: Top tips, pivots and lessons learned so far: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/episode-200-top-tips-pivots-lessons-learned/

The questions top Davos leaders are asking to start 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/questions-davos-leaders-are-asking-2026/

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Does religion divide humanity, or can faith help address some of the world's biggest challenges?

We hear from two members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Faith in Action about how faith can have a positive role in areas such as the economy, the environment, and technology.

Guests:

Gopal Patel, Co-Founder and President, FutureFaith

Soulaima Gourani , Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Happioh

Links:

Global Future Council on Faith in Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-faith-in-action/home

Their Faith in Action podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfZUMp_jvsz9BIw3zabGFy1l7mwpTo_mX

Network of Global Future Councils: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council/home

FutureFaith: https://futurefaith.io/

Happioh: https://www.linkedin.com/company/happioh-inc/

Related podcasts:

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Our first experiences of voting can colour our participation in democracy for life, according to political science Professor Michael Bruter.

The director of the Electoral Psychology Observatory at the London School of Economics reveals other surprising findings about voter behaviour, and explains why societies appear to be more polarised than ever, and what can be done to counter that.

Links:

Electoral Psychology Observatory: https://www.epob.org/

Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182896/inside-the-mind-of-a-voter?srsltid=AfmBOoo60jUoUh0bFaPirureoGz9Tggfs7brKTYzlg28Nwol7YUpiNcq

Related podcasts:

Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/

Top global risks in 2026 and how the Davos 'spirit of dialogue' can help us face them: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-risks-report-2026/

AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/

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