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     • In How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, author Alan Jacobs argues that people have thoughts affected by their surroundings and explains how people can remove some of the problems resulting from a lack of individual critical thought.
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   Does Alan Jacobs say 'how to think'?

   • If you're wondering "how to think," there's Alan Jacobs' answer. Perhaps this is a "spoiler," but I don't think so. The book is so full of convincing illustrations and clear explanations, you're going to want to read it to understand how we all think and how we can think better.

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   Is Alan Jacobs a good book?

   • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds is yet another great read. This book is Alan Jacobs not half-baked but maybe 90% baked, and it’s still fantastic. It felt to me like one long essay, very much in the Jacobs style, which means a lot of trenchant intellectual commentary, delivered smoothly, on interesting stories.

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   What does Jacobs say about thinking?

   • This book is the same: Jacobs gently and convincingly explains that we can only think well when we recognize that we aren't thinking independently. All of our thinking is relational. Our ideas are always formed with other people. We think in order to belong to certain groups.

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   Who is Alan Jacobs?

   • Alan Jacobs is one of my favorite internet people - his various blogs and mini blogs and the sole reason I used to go to twitter have long provided interesting ideas, visuals, and social commentary that was worth reading. A number of years ago I LOVED his book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. This book is written in that vein.

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   What does Jacobs say about critical thinking?

   • Jacob also explains the many merits of critical thinking. For example, social and economic developments such as democracy and technology derive from careful thought. As such, Jacobs argues that people should think more, as he writes that previous generations did. For Jacobs, thinking requires objectivity.

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   Is Alan Jacobs a good Kindle read?

   • Kindle read. Alan Jacobs is one of my favorite internet people - his various blogs and mini blogs and the sole reason I used to go to twitter have long provided interesting ideas, visuals, and social commentary that was worth reading. A number of years ago I LOVED his book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.

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3. www.theatlantic.com › politics › archiveQ&A With Alan Jacobs, Author of 'How to Think' - The Atlantic

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   Oct 15, 2017 · Jacobs’s new book, How to Think, backs into this description of American politics, claiming to offer a rejoinder to scholars like Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Haidt who focus too much on the...

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   Jan 19, 2018 · ‘How to Think’: A Summary. The goal of the book is to help us learn to interrogate our instincts and intuitions by examining the social, emotional, linguistic, and (necessarily) reductionistic way our intuitive thinking works. Introduction Takeaway: How we are incentivized not to think.

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   Jul 2, 2019 · In the first chapter of his book How to Think, Alan Jacobs makes two main points: 1) thinking alone is impossible and 2) true thinking requires a marriage of reason and emotion. Perhaps his most salient takeaway comes as a result of those two facts: it is possible to have engaged in genuine thought and come up with the wrong answer, and it is ...

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   Oct 17, 2017 · How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Alan Jacobs. 3.96. 4,251ratings652reviews. Kindle $14.99. 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.

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   Oct 17, 2017 · 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...

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9. dancohen.org › 2017/10/25 › humility-and-perspectiveHumility and Perspective-Taking: A Review of Alan Jacobs’s ...

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   Oct 25, 2017 · In Alan Jacobs’s important new book How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, he locates thought within our social context and all of the complexities that situation involves: our desire to fit into our current group or an aspirational in-group, our repulsion from other groups, our use of a communal (but often invisibly problematic ...

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    Sep 5, 2023 · In How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, author Alan Jacobs argues that people have thoughts affected by their surroundings and explains how people can remove some of the...