
ML182: Tom Chatfield on Overcoming Cognitive Biases, Finding Trustworthy Sources and How To Think Better
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How We Think by John Dewey
John dewey is most associated with a philosophical school called pragmatism, or american pragmatism. Thought was treated as a set of skills or tools that you could practise and hoe. They weren't interested in being right in the eternal, timeless sense. And william jane's talk about how faltily we apprehend the world also important. We are imperfect tools. Our thinking, words, ideas, they're imperfect tools. But that isn't a cause for despair. It's a cause for collaboration, for testing, for iteration, for improvement. I'm writing imperfect books. Even though i've called the book how to think, i'm not claiming i know
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