How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)

by The School of Life

understanding that we may be repeatedly hoodwinked by our own minds is the start of the only type of intelligence of which we are ever capable;

Thinking well means trying to put in place measures that can mitigate for the worst of our tendencies: always sleeping on a major decision; always ensuring that we have had enough food and water when we are reflecting hard; always trying to make a case for the opposite point of view to the one we’re initially and emotionally attracted to; always questioning our feelings rather than submitting to their excitements.

The non-sceptical person has a high degree of faith in their ability to judge relatively quickly and for the long term what is right and wrong about a given situation.