Am, i geing to forget people's names. Are not very good with names. Twitter does it for me? Am, i have a list of about forty or 50 people who seem to tweet from a variety of perspectives. The more you're reading someone, the best thing you can do is to sort of pause and contrast that to what's being said elsewhere. There'sa very fundamental, i gess, idea in philosophy, which is just the sort of statement that it makes good sense. And it's very important to come up with the most kind of reasonable and strongest possible statement of a position you disagree with, am before explaining why you disagree with it.
Tom Chatfield is a philosopher and author of the books Critical Thinking and How To Think. In this episode we discuss:- How to avoid common thinking mistakes and deal with your biases to be less wrong- The three characteristics of valuable information sources- How to understand statistics and form an accurate picture of reality in a data driven world
We also discuss Tom’s experience writing a book during the pandemic and the task of teaching people to think. This episode will help you overcome thinking mistakes and make sense of the world around you.