{"ops":[{"insert":"The primary organizing idea is the concept of confidence in reason as defined as \"the belief that reasoning things out is the best way to go along with the willingness to follow the facts wherever they lead us.\"\n\nThe secondary organizing ideas are:\nWhat confidence in reason is not ( overthinking, thinking in the moment of performances)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\"Intuitive critical thinking\" as thoughtfully trained beforehand thinking"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"the opposites of confidence in reason"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"the barrier of feeling the need to be validated or confirmed by other people"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"the probable implication of becoming more lonely as we develop as a critical thinker"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n3 insights I got from listening to the podcast:\n\"Intuitive critical thinking\" may be a kind of \"crystalized critical thinking\" to borrow the term from intelligence assesment term \"crystalized intelligence\" as opposed to \"fluid intelligence\""},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"the opposite of confidence in reason may be thought of as kinds of epistemologies (how we know things) that people have"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"confidence in reason put more emphasis on thinking on our own and therefore \"living in the future\" as we live the examined life as opposed to naively trusting the current system or authorities and \"knowing ourselves\" instead of relying on the unexamined authorities of others"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Other thought: as all human behvaviours seem to be in the end a search for knowledge (ie a man wanting to be a millionnaire really want to know how it's like to be a millionnaire, etc), in the end we want to \"know\" that we are doing the right thing, or that we are valueable, or loveable, etc. That knowledge can only be there if we own it ourselve and do not rely on the authorities of others."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"}]}