How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds,New

How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds,New

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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 Timeshow To Think Is A Contrarian Treatise On Why Were Not As Good At Thinking As We Assumebut 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 Harpers, Alan Jacobs Has Spent His Adult Life Belonging To Communities That Often Clash In Americas Culture Wars. And In His Years Of Confronting The Big Issues That Divide Uspolitical, Social, Religiousjacobs Has Learned That Many Of Our Fiercest Disputes Occur Not Because Were Doomed To Be Divided, But Because The People Involved Simply Arent Thinking.Most Of Us Dont Want To Think. Thinking Is Trouble. Thinking Can Force Us Out Of Familiar, Comforting Habits, And It Can Complicate Our Relationships With Likeminded Friends. Finally, Thinking Is Slow, And Thats 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 Thinkingforces That Have Only Worsened In The Age Of Twitter, Alternative Facts, And Information Overloadand He Also Dispels The Many Myths We Hold About What It Means To Think Well. (For Example: Its Impossible To Think For Yourself.)Drawing On Sources As Farflung 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.

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