Hello, I'm Greg, and I want to offer the warmest welcome to InSightful's Guide to Critical Thinking. Over the course of this series, I will introduce you to nine of the most important philosophical concepts in the history of thought, ones that, after you have encountered them and worked with them for a short while, will be able to actually help you in your daily life. For each idea, there are three levels, gradually and gently increasing in complexity, but still focused on the same singular notion.
Learn how to stop doing everything except for thinking. Create some space in your life for deep reflection, and you'll find that many puzzles in that same life simply vanish.
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Learn how to distinguish anxiety from anxiousness in this deep dive into what many consider to be the hallmark condition of our times and the world itself. Learn how to understand anxiety as both your ally and part of the voice of your very conscience.
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Learn how to put things in their proper place according to the value they hold for you. Learn how to separate what is truly meaningful in your life from all the small stuff you need no longer sweat about.
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Learn how to make the crucial distinction between authentic critique and mere criticism, whether directed at you or others. In doing so, you'll also be able to distinguish between your ideal self and the person who you generally are. Critique propels you toward your best self, without making you feel like you're a lost cause from the start.
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Learn how to risk your entire self in coming to know another, but also be able to trust that such an interaction will give you back more than it ever takes. This is authentic dialogue, not mere conversation or discussion. Opening yourself up in this way also opens up the world entire.
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Learn how to access every mind that has ever been alive by digging into the history of human thought itself. You'll find the more we understand ourselves to be connected to the vast consciousness of our species, the more connected you'll feel to your daily life.
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Human beings are social in their very essence, and any lack of, or retreat from, this essential state of being means losing a great deal of one's own humanity. Learn about what it means to actually be together with others; this is Mitsein, and it is the basis for all we love in the world.
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This is Insightful's 'Halloween episode', since its about… you guessed it: death. Learn how what seems unimaginably abstract to us is actually the most personal event of our lives; its presence presents to us a meaningfulness unavailable from any other part of life.
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Learn why there are different ideas around the world concerning the most profound aspects of human thought. Understand how someone else can think quite differently from you and yet still be recognizable, a crucial sensibility in today's conflicted world.
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This is the Guide's summary episode, where you'll learn how to put all nine concepts together into a handy analytic tool you can take anywhere in your life, and share with anyone.
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