The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking
Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it?

So many books, apps, courses, and schools compete for our attention that the problem isn't a lack of opportunity to sharpen our minds, it's having to choose between so many options. And yet, more than two thousand years ago, the greatest thinker of Ancient Greece, Aristotle, had already discovered the blueprint of the human mind.

Despite the fact that the latest cognitive science shows his blueprint to be exactly what sharpens our reasoning, subtlety of thought, and ability to think in different ways and for ourselves, we have meanwhile replaced it with a simplistic and seductive view of intelligence, education and the mind.

Condensing that blueprint to six 'secrets', Craig Adams uncovers the underlying patterns of every discussion and debate we've ever had, and shows us how to be both harder to manipulate and more skilful in any conversation or debate - no matter the topic.

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The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking
Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it?

So many books, apps, courses, and schools compete for our attention that the problem isn't a lack of opportunity to sharpen our minds, it's having to choose between so many options. And yet, more than two thousand years ago, the greatest thinker of Ancient Greece, Aristotle, had already discovered the blueprint of the human mind.

Despite the fact that the latest cognitive science shows his blueprint to be exactly what sharpens our reasoning, subtlety of thought, and ability to think in different ways and for ourselves, we have meanwhile replaced it with a simplistic and seductive view of intelligence, education and the mind.

Condensing that blueprint to six 'secrets', Craig Adams uncovers the underlying patterns of every discussion and debate we've ever had, and shows us how to be both harder to manipulate and more skilful in any conversation or debate - no matter the topic.

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The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking

The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking

by Craig Adams
The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking

The Six Secrets of Intelligence: Change the way you think about thinking

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Overview

Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it?

So many books, apps, courses, and schools compete for our attention that the problem isn't a lack of opportunity to sharpen our minds, it's having to choose between so many options. And yet, more than two thousand years ago, the greatest thinker of Ancient Greece, Aristotle, had already discovered the blueprint of the human mind.

Despite the fact that the latest cognitive science shows his blueprint to be exactly what sharpens our reasoning, subtlety of thought, and ability to think in different ways and for ourselves, we have meanwhile replaced it with a simplistic and seductive view of intelligence, education and the mind.

Condensing that blueprint to six 'secrets', Craig Adams uncovers the underlying patterns of every discussion and debate we've ever had, and shows us how to be both harder to manipulate and more skilful in any conversation or debate - no matter the topic.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785786525
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 03/04/2021
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

CRAIG ADAMS is a former commissioning editor at Harper Collins. He worked as a teacher before becoming disillusioned with education and convinced that it needed to be put right. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Part I Not Thinking

A Brief History of Not Thinking 3

What to Think, Not How to Think 3

A New World of Intellectual Possibility 11

Part II Thinking

Secret 1 Deduction: How to See Through Arguments 23

The Power of Deduction 23

The Dubious Deduction: A Likely Story 29

The Hidden Heart of Argument 34

Judo, Not Karate 39

Kick the Soapbox 44

Real-Life Deduction 49

Secret 2 Induction: How to Make or Break a Theory 63

Do You See The Signs? 63

Backwards Thinking: The Case of the Fallible Sign 67

Backseat Thinking: Don't Jump to Conclusions 74

Real-Life Induction 79

Secret 3 Analogy: A Sign of Genius 89

Simple Comparisons, Simple Labels' 89

Complex Comparisons: The Argument From Analogy 94

Real-Life Analogy 103

Secrets 4, 5 & 6 Reality, Evidence and Meaning: How to Think Like a Philosopher 117

Get Real: Ideas are Not Things 117

Made-up and Meaningless; How to Spot Pseudoscience 123

Politics: How to Fight a War of Words 130

If Only Truth Were Simple: The Three Questions 138

You Can't Ignore Real-Life Philosophical Thinking 146

Part III Thinking About Thinking

The Modern School of Thought 163

The Data Delusion: Frequently Wrong and Naturally Oblivious 163

The Power of Abstract Ideas 173

Part IV Thinking About Education

Our Culture of Thinking: Where Did We Go Wrong? 187

Talent Over Technique: Why Misunderstanding our Minds is Intellectually Disempowering 187

Taking Turns to Shout at Each Other: Why an Understanding, Freethinking Society Depends on Philosophical Thinking 200

The Silver Bullet: Why Schools Don't Teach Thinking 216

The Four Principles of Intellectual Education 231

The Limits of Thinking 248

Part V A School of Thought

On The Intelligence, Education and Happiness of Human Beings 257

The Minds We Have, The Lives We Live 257

The Spirit of a Society, The Mind of a Species 261

Sounding the Alarm; Consequences 264

What is Worth Learning, or A Theory of Education 267

Acknowledgements 273

Bibliography 275

About the Author 285

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