Adam Grant

But I didn't think about that because I didn't drive from work to the new neighborhood.

I just drove to the new neighborhood.

And you actually go.

You go and you do the drive.

You imagine the commute.

You sit on the lawn.

And you hear what the noise is like.

And so you are time traveling.

You're putting yourself in the situation as if you've already committed to it so that you can experience what it's like as opposed to just imagining what it will be like.

That's a better hypothesis testing strategy.

Because you don't force yourself to get out of your existing preference or comfort zone and actually try on the new experience.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then the challenge is you've gone from being at risk of preaching the status quo to preaching the change.

And making sure that the people around you know that this is part of how you are iterating and vetting, not you've already made up your mind.

Yeah.

Yeah, I can see that.

Sometimes I think I think it depends on the motives.

The same way that changing your mind is learning, but changing your position is flip-flopping.

I think polling people, if you're just adding them up and trying to go with the favorite option, that's politicking.