When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
Ralph Hertwigtheconversation.com
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When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
All this frenetic digital interruption is “pulling our attention away from our thoughts,” and “suppressing your default mode network…. I think we’re almost in this constant stimulus-driven, stimulus-bound environment, moving from one distraction to the next.” If you don’t remove yourself from that, it will “suppress whatever train of thought you ha
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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
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Social media is designed to cycle through content rather than encouraging people to sit with it, to understand it at a deeper level. New content is the fuel on which these platforms run.
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
how to think critically about what we pluck from the information flow, how much we are to believe what we find or are given, and whether we should even devote any mind share to it at all.