Ranjay Gulati
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But you know, the modern day version of courage we tell is one of the solitary solo effort.
I've talked about three now with you.
I just jumped ahead a little bit here.
I'll tell you my favorite though.
Can I get to my favorite one?
There's two actually.
The first one is called Comprehension.
And it comes from research by a University of Michigan professor, Carl Weick.
And he was studying firefighters.
And what he found is that firefighters don't just run into a building.
That's reckless, right?
They're not running into a building.
What they do is they observe the building from outside.
They see how fast the fire is going.
They try to find out, does somebody need to be rescued?
They see if there's anything combustible there, and they form initial hypotheses.
Then they go into the building.
As soon as they go into the building, they gather more information.
Each step more they go in, they are updating their belief.
It's what we call acting your way into knowing.