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Ep. 250: In Defense of Thinking

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Core Driver of Human Culture

The pursuit of thought offers pleasures that are marvelous for their purity and their enduringness. The activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior and serious worth. We get pleasure out of thinking because this is what humans can do that nothing else can. It's in thinking, in deep contemplation, what he calls philosophic wisdom that we find our full expression.

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