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This is, in broad strokes, right, but it is hugely reductionist. It is always worth remembering that we're not always in the right circumstances to allow good decisions, and we should probably not judge.
Otherwise, great essay. I've always thought it'd be nice to make "life start" grants or loans to facilitate exactly this kind of process of learning to think outside of universities too.
I've noticed that people I meet that I think of as intelligent usually had an adult that talked with them intelligently when they were younger. I think thinking is seen, then emulated, and this emulation needs a bit of coaching. Yes, once you start reading some of this can happen without someone else available, but ultimately thinking is learned by exposure to good examples of it and iterated practice.
I would definitely agree that an intelligent conversant can positively impact the outcome and as such apply the stimulus to my own child. A lack of this was one of my childhood and early adult life's frustrations.
It's funny that the paper author goes only into multitasking / concentration after wondering why people struggle to think critically. Sure, distracted thinking is generally not good thinking, but slowing down in and of itself won't improve your judgment skills. It's kind of a bummer that after the author says "there's a problem with critical thinking!" -- he moves on and doesn't talk about ways to actually develop critical thinking besides, you know, this 4 minute essay that just says "slow down the decision making process." I would have hoped he would have talked about different ways to analyze or prioritize problems, or discussed game theory or maybe gone into wicked problems[1].
Oh well
I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.
I agree too. I have the same feeling about Scott Young's newsletters. They both seem talk a lot but don't provide the same level of value they used. Then again, this article is from 2015. > The best way to improve your ability to think is to actually spend time thinking. > Good decision makers understand a simple truth: you can’t make good decisions without good thinking and good thinking requires time. One I still s…
> If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome."
I wish I could internalize that. For some reasons I feel as if it was the opposite.
I would argue that my degrees in philosophy were granted to me while I was learning to think and judge well at university. It's funny that the paper author goes only into multitasking / concentration after wondering why people struggle to think critically. Sure, distracted thinking is generally not good thinking, but slowing down in and of itself won't improve your judgment skills. It's kind of a bummer that after th…
In real life we often have to make suboptimal decisions merely because we cannot spend much time on each one.
I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.
I used to really appreciate fs. After a few years i, personally, think it’s clickbait and i am not the target audience anymore.