Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments: How to Expand Your Mental Horizons, Understand Metacognition, Improve Your Curiosity, and Think Like a Philosopher
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Learn To Think Using Thought Experiments: How to Expand Your Mental Horizons, Understand Metacognition, Improve Your Curiosity, and Think Like a Philosopher
IT DOESN’T TAKE a genius polymath to devise thought experiments. All it takes is a desire to collect apples and oranges, the patience to sit in boredom while your subconscious compares and connects them, and a willingness to expose the new fruits to others—whether it’s the scientists on your engineering team or your eight-year-old daughter.
Re-imagining history: A familiar use of the thought experiment is to re-imagine history. This one we all use, all the time. What if I hadn’t been stuck at the airport bar where I met my future business partner?
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