How can I get better at thinking?

How can I get better at thinking?

Stop watching anime

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take some math classes, especially logical ones like discrete math.

You probably can't. Most abstract reasoning abilities are developed during early childhood. Practice with problem solving tasks like programming or math might help a bit, but it won't be a big change.


Learning things that other people have said does not making you better at thinking. It makes you better at mindlessly regurgitating things that other people have said.
You might as well suggest that people can get fit by reading about exercise.

This is the stupidest thing I've ever read

I read.


I'm a programmer I have no problems being autistic but it does not transfer that much.

Then read more, especially philosophy

Depends. "Thinking" as in forming your own opinions and ideas regarding a subject, requires a lot of knowledge, you need to understand a little bit of any subject vaguely related to it, while knowing everything regarding the subject you are trying to "think" about. This means reading a whole lot of books, articles, and compendiums. Where obviously books give the best perspective, but also require the longest to read and digest. While articles are easy to read and don't take very long, however, won't grant you the same in depth knowledge. Which means, read books about the subject you are interested in, and articles (or wikipedia articles) regarding subjects related to the periphery of that subject.
If you want to train your logical thinking abilities, you need to learn how to grasp complex subjects. Math is the best form, even if you don't want to "think" about math. This is because math is 100% objective, you can't make a mistake without it having grave and noticeable consequences for the result (unlike philosophy and literary analysis). Just try to relearn all of high school math, until you actually understand the principles behind it. As in, being able to explain why it works, instead of just using some formula.
In addition to math, try to read philosophy. It will help you visualize abstract ideas and transform them into coherent thoughts. The most important part is not to give up. Even if people say that your brain becomes less able to learn to older you get. I managed to grasp new concepts, which seemed alien to me a year ago, all it required was a lot effort. Sometimes you will need to read a passage multiple times or read a supplementary text to give you a better understanding. Sometimes the writing style is too verbose, in this case, try to find a different author explaining the same topic. Don't eat sugar when reading, it will make you lose focus.

You mean repeating things. If they learn it, they know what it means and what the arguments behind it are. If they repeat it word for word, they have learned nothing.

Drop acid and read till your head hurts?

Patience.

Take an Intro To Logic class at your local community college, it really helped me out a lot with sorting through literary arguments and helping me think about and defend my own arguments too.

There won't be any math, either! So if you're anxious about math like I was, Logic is a great place to start refining your critical thinking skills.

Read this new book on how to think.

stop doing it

Download a program called dual n back

Learn programming and math, and experimental sciences a bit of each

Read philosophy and Marx

Why do people think programming and maths automatically makes you a better thinker?

Become a qt trap

How would that help?

math is for capitalists, pick dialectics

Read continental philosophy

He's right, though. Reasoning is a creative art, not a repetitive exercise.

That's what makes it unfit for practice, you won't learn to swim by flailing hands in the air.

Stop being a commie

Are you serious? Do you shit on a 2000 year old philosophical tradition of being both capable in natural and social sciences? Do you really think that people who can't solve a simple equation are able to explain complex social phenomena? The reason why math is a good way to practice, is exactly because it only has a single solution. If you can argue for why that single solution is correct, then you have trained your cognitive abilities. Should he start out with trying to find the answer to complex philosophical questions without any prior cognitive training? This is a poor starting point because there sometimes are no solutions or many solutions based on beliefs and presuppositions.

My point is different. In mathematics making a mistake results in a single output: error, and it's up to you to figure out what went wrong inside the existing framework. In real life mistake - when recognised as error - still leaves a lot of residual data that can alter entire framework of information processing, thus hinting to hitherto irrelevant/impossible solutions.

Math does force you to reason and explain how you arrived at an answer. Higher level math has helped me to a certain extent. It doesn't automatically make you a better thinker, though.

Just trust me.

The mathematics language is specifically designed to express pure logic.

Wear a skirt

You seem to be lost, polyp.

Just pay a fellow comrade to do your thinking for you.

How would you measure the purity of said logic?

Okay…

Don't read not an argument man.

Because STEMfags deify their work.

What makes you think you're bad at thinking then? Got any examples?

So is reading

Shit post on Holla Forums have your ideas challenged and "think" about why you hold them. Read things about any doubts, shit post on Holla Forums, repeat. Doesn't necessarily have to be Holla Forums any deviation from things you hold dear will suffice.

Opposition is the best tool for expanding your mind.

What else can Holla Forums offer besides >muh jews, muh fuhrer, muh cultural marxists? Holla Forums is intellectual trash

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I'm not the OP. If there's something nazis really lack is critical thinking, so this is terrible advice.

Is this shit actually published in a book? I refuse to believe anyone would be so dishonest about how simple inference works.

If this were changed to "all kind people are socialists" then yes, Bob would be a socialist. We cannot infer, however, that if Bob is a socialist, that he is necessarily a kind person.

Do you have a PDF?

The only thing I found out is useful is to constantly engage in cognitive dissonance and criticism of one own logic. Math and reading are helpful but only if done in a meaningful way: reading slowly and carefully, trying to grasp every phrase and the whole context, otherwise it is not different from reading chat or forums. For math it is the same, if you don't grasp the logical context it's just droning calculus.

This killed me inside

Anything heavily laden in rigorous proof writing, analysis, abstract algebra, topology. Discrete is mostly an easy weed-out class for CS brainlets and people who shouldn't be in math tbh, so you don't have to spend five weeks in analysis explaining what proofs are or face whining.
That's the best for abstract reasoning and for precise, rigorous argument. You'll also pay more attention to definitions introduced in whatever theory you're reading and their elementary consequences and implications, helping you work with the concepts themselves rather than clumsily throw around words by your prior associations with them. Basically cuts down on the essence of AA v Jack.

redpill yourself

yes mate I saw it on sam kriss's twitter yesterday

"Solving a simple equation" basically amounts to correctly repeating a canned sequence of steps, and seeing which step wasn't part of the procedure when you get it wrong. Real critical thinking consists of, say, proving a general solution to a certain class of equation (say, showing that the quadratic formula is what you end up with when you "complete the square" on an arbitrary quadratic.

Don't think too much. Basic econ 101 supply and demand.

autism

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