Product Description: Outraged by the downward spiral of intellect and culture, Michael LeGault offers the flip side of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling phenomenon, Blink, which theorized that our best decision-making is done on impulse, without factual knowledge or critical analysis. If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that sharp, incisive reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of people everywhere.
Somewhere along the line, the Age of Reason morphed into the Age of Emotion; this systemic erosion is costing time, money, jobs, and lives in the twenty-first century, leading to less fulfilment and growing dysfunction. LeGault provides a bold, controversial, and objective analysis of the causes and solutions for some of the biggest problems facing Western culture in the 21st century. From the over- load of reality TV shows and gossip magazines that have rendered curiosity of the mind and spirit obsolete to permissive parenting and low standards that have caused an academic crisis among our children, LeGault looks at all aspects of modern lives and points to how and where it all went wrong.
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Rating: - Very helpful stimulant toward practical thinking
I listened to this audio book for two weeks while commuting to work. Most of the theses hold together strongly as I apply them to events going on in our nation now, two 2 years after its publication. For ... Read More
Rating: - Complete waste of time reading this book
This book is poorly organized and contains no useful information. Unless you want to understand why people should have commonsense there is no reason to get this book.
Rating: - Critical Thinking instead of Intuitive Blinking
"Is America losing its ability to think? If, for arguments sake, we define thinking as the use of knowledge and reasoning to solve problems and plan and produce favorable outcomes, the answer is, apparently, ... Read More
Rating: - Should be read once a year
After reading this book, I can no longer watch television without feeling guilty for wasting my time. The author showed me many holes in my college education. He writes to the lay people and the college student. ... Read More
Rating: - No critical thinking in Think!
This book purports to explain why we need to depend more on critical thinking and analysis, but tries to do so without using any critical thinking. Most of LeGault's arguments are unsupported by any kind of evidence ... Read More
- Very helpful stimulant toward practical thinking
- Complete waste of time reading this book
- Should be read once a year