How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
Unleashing the power of your mind begins with mastering the art of thinking. Yet, it's a skill often overlooked in formal education. Let's delve into the untapped potential of your cognitive abilities and learn how to think effectively.
Thinking is a skill that can be learned, but it is not taught in schools
Poor thinking comes with costs such as wasting time and more stress
- Good thinking often allows for more freedom and more positive outcomes
Learning How to Think
Researchers at Stanford found that people who multitask often perform tasks worse
- They separated people based on if they had high multitasking tendencies and low and found that people who often multi-tasked scored worse in every measurable category
- Multitasking was found to impair your ability to think
- Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough for an idea to form
- German novelist Thomas Mann once said that writers who take longer to write often have better end results and this could be because of the issue with multitasking
Improving Thinking
The best way to improve thinking is to spend time thinking
- People often want to think easily rather than critically
- Easy thinking requires less time than hard thinking which as a result can come at the cost of future decisions not being thought through totally
- Spotting a poor thinker is oftentimes spotting how many poor decisions they are thinking with
- Take time to think through problems to not fix them in the future