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Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
The French psychologist Jean Piaget is reputed to have said that ‘intelligence is knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do’, and this is precisely the kind of intelligence we need now.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Second, groups with diverse viewpoints are the best protection against confirmatory thought.
Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
In the twenty-first century, however, knowledge is becoming less a question of “What is the information?” and more of a “Where is the information?”
Douglas Thomas • A New Culture of Learning
The world is far too complex to allow for singularly right or wrong answers to difficult questions.
M. Andrew McConnell • Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom
In the 20th century, America built the most capable knowledge-producing institutions in human history. In the past decade, they got stupider en masse. In his book The Constitution of Knowledge, Jonathan Rauch describes the historical breakthrough in which Western societies developed an “epistemic operating system”—that is, a set of institutio... See more
The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
- Follow with your verbal “Why it matters”— short context for your Big Thought.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
