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No skill is more valuable than critically thinking through problems.
Unfortunately 'how to think' is not on your school curriculm. It may come up in classes but you have to do the work yourself. Those who do it well get an advantage and those that do it poorly pay a tax. 
This quote sums it up perfectly: “I’ve spent my life trying to undo habits—especially habits of thinking... They narrow your interaction with the world. They’re the phrases that come easily to your mind, like: ‘I know what I think,’ or ‘I know what I like,’ or ‘I know what’s going to happen today.’ If you just replace ‘know’ with ‘don’t know,’ then you start to move into the unknown. And that’s where the interesting stuff happens.” — Humans of New York |
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1/3: How to think, not what to think (TED Talk)
This first video is a talk given at a TED event. Jesse is the founder of School of Thought. He believes the key to engaging future generations is to teach them how, and not what, to think.
2/3: The Most Powerful Way to Think
Once the first video is understood, this video follows on by stating that the essence of the powerful mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
3/3: How do you learn to think?
"I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn’t turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing."
“It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise”
Exercepts from 'Solitude and Leadership', an essay by William Deresiewicz (American author and literacy critic)
“It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise”
Exercepts from 'Solitude and Leadership', an essay by William Deresiewicz (American author and literacy critic)
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