Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
A Conversation with Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn
Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
In this episode, my guest is Prof. Woo-kyoung Ahn, the author of Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better. Dr. Ahn is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her main area of research interest is higher-level reasoning processes. In particular, the study of how people learn and represent concepts and causal relations and how causal explanations shape our thinking processes.
“Metacognition guides our actions: knowing what we know tells us what to avoid, what to search for, or what to dive or not dive into. We can’t live without it.”
— Woo-kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101
In the conversation, Prof. Ahn and I discuss,
Why cognitive psychology can make the world a better place
The allure of fluency and why it matters
The difference between rumination and contemplation
The reason “why” questions are generally unanswerable
How to think about the future self
Wisdom in daily life and much more
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