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von Alan Jacobs (Autor)

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"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." --David Brooks, New York Times 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.   Most of us don't want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias.   In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking--forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, "alternative facts," and information overload--and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It's impossible to "think for yourself.")   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.… (mehr)
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds was written by Allan Jacobs to help people feeling chaos from social media and anti-intellectualism in today's world. I recently became interested in the Blogging for Books program and this title caught my eye. Thinking is needed in today's world, and first teachers might consider this topic at a high level before introducing a unit about which news is real and which might be fake. The topics of alternative facts, social media arguing not based on fact, and emotional struggles with the avalanche of information are discussed in this text. How to deal with it all? Jacobs has several well researched thoughts. I have to admit some of the book would require further study on my part and therefore it would be good for a book group to discuss.

How to Think

The topic of thinking is near and dear to my heart as I taught an entire school of children thinking skills on a weekly basis. Teaching gifted and talented classes was half of my job with Wayzata Public Schools, and the other half was teaching every grade one through six class in the school thinking skills. Sometimes referred to as "Thinking Kills" or "Stinking Skills" by a few students, the challenge was to not only see children for a half or a full hour a week in a classroom setting, but also to assign grades to all of them. Quite the job! After five or six years the program was canceled, although the district retained the gifted and talented program. As a result, thinking about thinking always interests me.

Jacobs tackles many common myths about how people think that we may take for granted without -- well, thinking about them. He quotes famous several leaders who have written books in the field of thinking, and makes several insightful observations we can take to heart to help us deal with information and misinformation in today's world. He cites books used in schools such as Lois Lowery's The Giver. He quotes John Stuart Mill and C.S. Lewis. It was helpful that I had recently read Making Sense of the Bible by Adam Hamilton as some of the same questions were discussed in both books. Jacobs quotes T. S. Elliot as saying when we do not know something for sure, we tend to substitute emotions for knowledge. Teachers know this plays out in the classroom often.

He quotes Marilynne Robinson as saying we invest in not knowing some things in order to have the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved. Again, teachers notice this happening in the classroom as well. This might be harmless for children to keep friends at school, of course. Thinking is a science not an art and there is no set of directions to follow to produce reliable thought. Perhaps that is the problem with trying to teach an entire school of children to think? Ya think?

Jacobs argues there is no real thinking for yourself, as in when you hear people say, "She finally started thinking for herself!" He says it means instead of thinking like one group, the person has actually started thinking more like a different group. He says there is no thinking without the influence of other people. How do we react without hating or antagonizing "the other?" How do we think amid the chaos of the information age? How do we think when we get bits of information thrown at us constantly without time to research, reflect, and consider what is being said? Patience is one habit of thoughtful people Jacob states.

The book offers examples of what happens when people are given wait time. One of the vignettes in the book is about how Jacobs wanted to argue with a someone only to be told to give it five minutes. He shares examples of how thinking can change if a person has to wait a minute or two before talking. In the classroom, we give wait time (hopefully) to children who might need to process the information before answering a question. Offering wait time to children before answers are required fits in well with the information in this book. We can give ourselves thinking time before responding on Twitter and Facebook, and also in real life as one step forward. We can encourage students to do the same.

Another favorite author of mine is David Brooks, and I was happy to see his positive review. ( )
  WiseOwlFactory | Feb 20, 2022 |
I found this to be an interesting topic and I think it was explained in a way that made it easy to follow and understand. I'll maybe even read it again sometime. ( )
  JorgeousJotts | Dec 3, 2021 |
I will be using this book as a text in a Freshman university course. There is a lot to consider with this book but I feel it will be accessible to the students and a conversation starter to say the least. ( )
  AR_bookbird | Dec 17, 2020 |
LT How to Think, Alan Jacob, CURRENCY-Penguin Random House, 2017
Where is hard copy? philosophy section of BCSA west wall bottom shelf
Gift from Holly Stratton 8/8/20

Theme: how to think
Type: philosophy
Value: 1-
Age: col
Interest: 1- (2+?) hard to follow sometimes

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Review of literature/incorporate reading 11
Daniel Kahneman 15
People don’t want to think 17
Puritan illustration 21 People use code words/attitudes t get into the clubhouse even though they don’t know what they are talking about: it is popular to condemn the Puritans, gets you into the club
We think emotionally 22-23
Academics are poor thinkers often because what gets them accepted into high learning is good grades 24
We are in multiple communities and it helps us to be objective as to truth, as we sincerely look from different perspectives 25
Repugnant Cultural Others 26
Thinking is an art 29
Thinking sacrifices security 35
JS Mills upbringing (was emotion-denying) 41-44, 84
Whole person necessary-feelings 43
“break on the floor” 52, cf. 98
The mind reasons to the heart’s predilections 54, 58
Inner ring 55, 58
Roger Scruton 65, 74 “unscrupulous optimism” condemns those who don’t share my vision
Outgroup animosity is greater than ingroup support 73
Proceduralism 75 all must abide by the same rules
Respect others 76, 98
Bulverism 78 the logical fallacy of assuming without discussion that a person is wrong and then distracting his or her attention from this
Woman with no fear 85- need for prejudice and custom
Mad man is one with pure unalloyed reason 88
Call out numbers to tell jokes 94
Analogies, myth making 104
Agree as to what said 108
Healthy community 138
David Foster Wallace 139, 143 “rigor and humility (passionate conviction plus a sedulous [persevering and constant effort or application] respect for the convictions of others), plus 100% intellectual integrity—you have to be willing to look honestly at yourself and at your motives for believing what you believe, and to do it more or less continually”
Everything is connected 141
Sum of book 143 pursuit of truth, tragic consequence
Ability to code switch 144-145
Plausibility structures (D. A. Carson) 146

Other reading 25, 35, 139
Whit 36, 42
MJH 139, 143 ( )
  keithhamblen | Sep 1, 2020 |
Thought provoking book (as intended). Good examples of various wrong patterns of thinking common to all people. Closes with a checklist of ways to be less narrow-minded. ( )
  RLHorton | Jan 26, 2018 |
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"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." --David Brooks, New York Times 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.   Most of us don't want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias.   In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking--forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, "alternative facts," and information overload--and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It's impossible to "think for yourself.")   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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