How To Think by Alan Jacobs
A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
A corrective to hurried, performative thinking, this book argues that thinking well is a habit cultivated through virtues—humility, patience, honesty and courage—and through practices such as careful reading, re‑reading, note‑taking, conversation and sustained attention to difficult texts and ideas. It warns against the online incentives that promote quick, loud judgment and tribal certainty, urges readers to resist the allure of cleverness and certainty, and shows how slow, charitable engagement with others and with books yields clearer, more reliable judgments. Practical and humane, the author offers examples and routines for improving one’s intellectual life while insisting that thinkers prioritize truth-seeking, correction, and the communal dimensions of thought over performance or persuasion.
- Published
- 2017
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Original Language
- English
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