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Confessions of a Philosopher: Bryan Magee on the Importance of Peer Criticism In Learning

In Confessions of a Philosopher, an excitingly readable and thought-provoking introduction to philosophy written in a form of an autobiography, Bryan Magee tells us about his personal journey through philosophy, from having insoluble questions in…

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Why It Is Hard (and Bad) To Learn From Experience

Experience is a dear teacher. – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is certainly right. However, learning from experience can be expensive. And quite hard. Kahneman and Tversky in their paper describe the main reasons why it…

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Richard Feynman on the Importance of Learning Concepts Instead of Mere Facts

In the Graduate College dining room at Princeton everybody used to sit with his own group. I sat with the physicists, but after a bit I thought: It would be nice to see what the…

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Rolf Dobelli on What to do Instead of Reading News

  […] If you want to keep the illusion of “not missing anything important”, I suggest you glance through the summary page of the Economist once a week. Don’t spend more than five minutes on…

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Barry Diller on The Importance of Unlearning

[…] HOFFMAN: So how did you apply your blank page, your process, to the starting of your Internet businesses?DILLER: The first one is always the first, and then since I’m always up for anything, I…

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