Everyone would like to think of themselves as rational, forming their views from all the facts in an unbiased way. But this is almost never the case. It is possible to hold two conflicting beliefs at the same time. The psychological term for this is cognitive...
Sometimes it feels like your heart and your brain are two different decision-makers. Your heart makes irrational, impulsive decisions, and your mind is the logical decision-maker. Sometimes the two come together to make for wildly inconsistent decision-making behavior.
Second order thinking takes into account the endless ripple effects of our decisions. Thinking in the second order is considering the chain of effects that happens after the immediate consequence.
What Are First Principles? Independent Logic. Something that stands on its own. Constantly questioning why. First principle thinking has been used by the greatest creative minds to come up with inventions and solutions. It’s what inventors and scientists use to...
Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived from 470-399BC. He never published his views so everything we know about him is from three primary sources: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato. In his book, Theaetetus, Plato describes how Socrates would use disciplined...
