How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

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May 21, 2018 a project of ServiceSpace When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. - T.S. Eliot - How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds "Last fall Alan Jacobs published a slim book with a bold title: How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Jacobs is a professor of English literature, but in this book he joins a growing chorus of social psychologists who warn that enlightenment anthropology -- what Jamie Smith memorably calls the "brains-on-a-stick" model of human persons -- falls woefully short of reality. Rather, as people like Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Haidt have shown, our bodies -- our senses, emotions, and intuitions -- shape and direct our reasoning." { read more } Be The Change Consider what could help make you a better thinker. Learn more about the origins of "How to Think" in Alan Jacob's post here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Benefits of Learning to Be Kind to Yourself Dan Siegel: The Open Mind What Matters Most? The Power of Emotional Agility 10 Tips for Effective Communication On the Relationship Between Failure, Humility and Wisdom A Reading List For The Spirit Desiderata: Go Placidly Amidst the Noise & Haste DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,243 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More