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How to Think
- A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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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.
As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us - political, social, religious - Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided but because the people involved simply aren't thinking.
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Drawing on sources as far-flung 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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- Isaac Gund
- 2022-02-03
How to think?
This book is a worthwhile read, especially for those who use the internet often.
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- S.i.R. HOLLiiWOOD
- 2021-05-28
An excellent perspective
This book was not so deep that it was hard to understand. It was a wealth of knowledge without being too much to take in as I listened.
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- Shenanigans
- 2021-08-02
Very informative and interesting
Loved this book very informative , funny , entertaining.
Recommend for everyone and everyone
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