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Author: Alan Jacobs Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0451499603 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 162
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"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York Times How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
Author: Alan Jacobs Publisher: Currency ISBN: 0451499603 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York Times How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
Author: Sean Ali Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981375349 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
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Peace and Blessings of Life! This small book represents Volume One of my Knowledge Of Self Series and is constructed to be a Manual To Successfully RISE Above Emotions..!!!!! In this Exciting Volume, we take a close look at and examine the Best Scientific knowledge on Thought, Thinking & Emotions - their Mechanics, Chemistry and how we can Control and Focus our Thoughts and Emotions to produce the required Thinking to Heal, Be Healthy, Powerful and create the Environment in OurSelves so that we can Successfully Enjoy Abundant LIFE!!! The Thoughts we produce become the catalyst for the Direction of our everyday Motion and the consistency of our Thoughts are the Force and Power of how long we move and that specific Direction and is the determining factors of our success in making Manifest our Thoughts. Thoughts carry both Electro-Magnetic Energy and a corresponding Chemical/Hormonal Actions attached to them. This means that the Electrical Current and it's Strength = High or Low; Positive or Negative, is made manifest within us with every Thought and/or Emotion. Those that are constantly experiencing fleeting or inconsistent and wide-ranging thoughts/emotions, have the equivalent in Energy and Hormones being produced. This type of Thought/Emotional pattern creates an unhealthy and stressful environment that is NOT conducive to Growth and Development as well as Empowering. When we understand the Science of Thought, we can control pain and discomfort with Knowledge and instead of seeking medications or other external solutions, we can use the Art of Thinking to focus our Energy and deliberately direct our body to HEAL ITSELF!!! Knowing HOW our Brain functions allows us to control and use our Brain to Heal, Be Healthy, Be Powerful and BE THE GOD"S THAT WE ARE!!! Science of Thought - Art of Thinking .... A Manual To Rising Above Emotions!! PEACE! Sean Ali, Supreme Health and Fitness!
Author: Sean Ali Publisher: ISBN: 9781973484226 Category : Languages : en Pages : 378
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Peace and Blessings of Life!This small book represents Volume One of my Knowledge Of Self Series and is constructed to be a Manual To Successfully RISE Above Emotions..!!!!!In this Exciting Volume, we take a close look at and examine the Best Scientific knowledge on Thought, Thinking & Emotions - their Mechanics, Chemistry and how we can Control and Focus our Thoughts and Emotions to produce the required Thinking to Heal, Be Healthy, Powerful and create the Environment in OurSelves so that we can Successfully Enjoy Abundant LIFE!!!The Thoughts we produce become the catalyst for the Direction of our everyday Motion and the consistency of our Thoughts are the Force and Power of how long we move and that specific Direction and is the determining factors of our success in making Manifest our Thoughts.Thoughts carry both Electro-Magnetic Energy and a corresponding Chemical/Hormonal Actions attached to them. This means that the Electrical Current and it's Strength = High or Low; Positive or Negative, is made manifest within us with every Thought and/or Emotion.Those that are constantly experiencing fleeting or inconsistent and wide-ranging thoughts/emotions, have the equivalent in Energy and Hormones being produced. This type of Thought/Emotional pattern creates an unhealthy and stressful environment that is NOT conducive to Growth and Development as well as Empowering. When we understand the Science of Thought, we can control pain and discomfort with Knowledge and instead of seeking medications or other external solutions, we can use the Art of Thinking to focus our Energy and deliberately direct our body to HEAL ITSELF!!!Knowing HOW our Brain functions allows us to control and use our Brain to Heal, Be Healthy, Be Powerful and BE THE GOD"S THAT WE ARE!!!Science of Thought - Art of Thinking .... A Manual To Rising Above Emotions!!PEACE!Sean Ali, Supreme Health and Fitness!
Author: Sean Ali Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781985110007 Category : Languages : en Pages : 398
Book Description
Peace and Blessings of Life! This small book represents Volume One of my Knowledge Of Self Series and is constructed to be a Manual To Successfully RISE Above Emotions..!!!!! In this Exciting Volume, we take a close look at and examine the Best Scientific knowledge on Thought, Thinking & Emotions - their Mechanics, Chemistry and how we can Control and Focus our Thoughts and Emotions to produce the required Thinking to Heal, Be Healthy, Powerful and create the Environment in OurSelves so that we can Successfully Enjoy Abundant LIFE!!! The Thoughts we produce become the catalyst for the Direction of our everyday Motion and the consistency of our Thoughts are the Force and Power of how long we move and that specific Direction and is the determining factors of our success in making Manifest our Thoughts. Thoughts carry both Electro-Magnetic Energy and a corresponding Chemical/Hormonal Actions attached to them. This means that the Electrical Current and it's Strength = High or Low; Positive or Negative, is made manifest within us with every Thought and/or Emotion. Those that are constantly experiencing fleeting or inconsistent and wide-ranging thoughts/emotions, have the equivalent in Energy and Hormones being produced. This type of Thought/Emotional pattern creates an unhealthy and stressful environment that is NOT conducive to Growth and Development as well as Empowering. When we understand the Science of Thought, we can control pain and discomfort with Knowledge and instead of seeking medications or other external solutions, we can use the Art of Thinking to focus our Energy and deliberately direct our body to HEAL ITSELF!!! Knowing HOW our Brain functions allows us to control and use our Brain to Heal, Be Healthy, Be Powerful and BE THE GOD"S THAT WE ARE!!! Science of Thought - Art of Thinking .... A Manual To Rising Above Emotions!! PEACE! Sean Ali, Supreme Health and Fitness!
Author: Rolf Dobelli Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062359800 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 269
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A world-class thinker counts the 100 ways in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these “thinking errors” to make better decisions and have a better life Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.” Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger. The “behavioral turn” in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t. Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.
Author: Neil Nedley Publisher: ISBN: 9780966197921 Category : Cognition Languages : en Pages : 429
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The Lost Art of Thinking is a unique tool that you can use to improve mental performance, emotional intelligence, and life satisfaction in a practical and all inclusive way. - Experience emotional calm and stability under tremendous stress.- Make lasting positive changes in your mental ability and mood. - Find high levels of motivation, with more energy and better productivity. - Develop a high ability to think through complex situations, analyze information accurately, and make correct decisions habitually. - Improve your relationships and enjoy a healthy zest for life.
Author: Eugenia Cheng Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 154167250X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 296
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How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't be logical, what are we to do? In this book, Cheng reveals the inner workings and limitations of logic, and explains why alogic -- for example, emotion -- is vital to how we think and communicate. Cheng shows us how to use logic and alogic together to navigate a world awash in bigotry, mansplaining, and manipulative memes. Insightful, useful, and funny, this essential book is for anyone who wants to think more clearly.
Author: Alan Jacobs
Author: Alan Jacobs
Author: Sean Ali
Author: Sean Ali
Author: Sean Ali
Author: Rolf Dobelli
Author: Ernest Dimnet
Author: Henry Hazlitt
Author: Neil Nedley
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