Thinking About Thinking

don’t think your way into doing, do your way into thinking

Just like those lines, I think all of our various tests of intelligence aren’t as different as they seem. They’re all full of problems that have a few important things in common:

There are stable relationships between the variables.

There’s no disagreement about whether the problems are problems, or whether they’ve been solved.

There have clear

Adam Mastroianni • Why Aren't Smart People Happier?

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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. -Neil Postman, 2005

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visakan veerasamy • A Stupid Bravery

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like Fran Lebowitz said “words are easy, books are not.”

Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metaphorical thinking in creative intellectual processes in science and beyond. In Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System, for instance, she likened the system to a... See more

Miranda Forsyth • Creative thinking | Anthea Roberts — Anthea Roberts

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Steve Jobs explains the importance of both thinking and doing:

“The doers are the major thinkers. The people who really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker-doer in one person.”

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I think our starting hypothesis should be that behaviors that spread in the population arise from social learning, rather than from a mysterious unconscious process of thoughtless copying

Carcinisation • Against Automaticity

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