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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

Written by: Patrick Grim, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Patrick Grim
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Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways. Bad arguments, fallacious reasoning, misleading language, and built-in cognitive biases are all traps that keep us from rational decision making. What can we do to avoid these traps and think better? Is it possible to think faster, more efficiently, and more systematically?

The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.

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This is an example of what has frequently been happening of late; Audible is re-purposing video courses from The Great Courses Plus by simply repackaging the audio and giving it a new cover.

The first chapter alone contains visual information that is not translatable to an audio format, including a 2-3 minute dialogue between two actors which (apparently) uses multiple camera angles or shots in order to show how unperceptive we are. As an audio listen, though, it is merely frustrating.

This is not like some of the other GC courses where one or two diagrams are needed and are thus included in the PDF information booklet. This feels like cheating to me.

Avoid.

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avoid. this material at the depth its intended to cover could be taught in 4 hours...that is if he just went right to the skills and stayed on point to illustrate and teach the skills instead of perseverating on the approach and mansplaining every single thing he brings up.

20% content 80% talking to hear himself

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