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Polished rocks model of team disagreement

A good team operates in a sweet spot where members forcefully and passionately defend their positions yet remain able to accept information and change their ideas when wrong—like polishing rocks by putting hard things in a hard container and spinning so they bash against each other and a more refined product emerges—which requires overriding the primate brain's tendency to treat conceding an argument as a loss of standing.

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Speaker

Matthew MacDougall

Evidence Quote

you just have to recognize that that little voice in the back of your head is maladaptive and it’s not helping the team win.

Source

Elon Musk And Neuralink TeamLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:37:31 AM

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