September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
If you want to be a top-notch thinker, you have to do the work yourself. That is to say, you have to do the thinking. You can’t let anyone else do it for you. That might sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how often we take the convenient shortcut of adopting other people’s thinking.
All right, I’ll let you off working out the theory of relativity for yourself. There are specialist areas where you don’t have the skills to do the relevant thinking, and you’re allowed to let scientists, mathematicians, top-flight economists and statisticians and engineers do your thinking for you.2 Even so, don’t take their word for anything until you’ve established in your own mind that they know what they’re talking about and have no ...