Most people are getting dumber. Largely because of the smartphone, we’re in an era of declining attention spans, reading skills, numeracy and verbal reasoning. How to buck the trend? I’ve charted seven intellectual habits of the best thinkers. True, these people exist in a different league from the rest of us. To use an analogy from computing, their high processing power allows them to crunch vast amounts of data from multiple domains. In other words, they have intellectual overcapacity. Still, we can learn from their methods. These can sound obvious, but few people live by them.
大多數人都在變笨。主要是拜智能手機所賜，我們正處于一個注意力持續時間、閱讀能力、計算能力和語言邏輯能力不斷下降的時代。如何逆流而上？筆者整理了最優秀思考者的七個明智習慣。誠然，這些人可以說與我們不在一個層次上。如果用計算機來類比的話，他們具備強大的處理能力，能夠處理來自多個領域的大量數據。換句話說，他們擁有智力冗余。不過，我們依然可以學習他們的方法。這些方法聽起來可能平淡無奇，但真正身體力行的人卻寥寥無幾。