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How To Think

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

How To Think

By Alan Jacobs

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About the book

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.Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It 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) le...Show more

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9781781259573

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

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How To Think

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Paperback

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