#180 TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In the fifth installment in a series of episodes, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from five guests revolving around one theme: learning and thinking. This episode will help you create an environment that’s more conducive to clear thinking, improve your intuition, learn the difference between the two main modes of thinking, examine the learning process, use “online experimentation” to develop good judgment, and eliminate blind spots in your thought processes.

The guests on this episode are psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman (Episode 68), engineering professor Barbara Oakley (Episode 31), author and global macro advisor Adam Robinson (Episodes 47 and 48), economist and professor Tyler Cowen (Episode 39), and author and organizational psychology professor Adam Grant (Episode 112).

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best, what other people have
0:21.0	already figured out, so you can apply their insights to your life.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Shane Parish.
0:28.0	Every Sunday I send out the brain food newsletter to over 600,000 people. It's considered noise cancelling
0:34.6	headphones for the internet and it's full of timeless wisdom you can apply to
0:38.2	life and work. Sign up for free and see what you're missing at FS. blog slash newsletter. If you're listening to this
0:45.0	you're missing it. If you'd like access to the podcast before public release, special
0:49.5	episodes that don't appear anywhere else, hand-edited transcripts, pre-release events, or you just want to support the show you love, you can join an FS.
1:00.0	Check out the show notes for a link.
1:02.0	Over the last five years, I've been lucky enough to speak with some of the most incredible people in the world.
1:07.0	When I listen to these past episodes, one thing that stands out for me
1:12.0	is how well the ideas stand the test of time.
1:15.6	There is relevant and insightful today as when they were originally recorded.
1:20.9	That's why a few times a year we go back to earlier episodes, some of which you may have missed, some of which you might have forgotten, and pull out some key insights around a single theme. The theme for this episode is learning and thinking. You'll hear Daniel Conman give advice on how to create
1:36.5	an environment that's more conducive to clear thinking and explain ways to improve your
1:41.1	intuition. Then Barbara Oakley will teach you about the two main modes of thinking,
1:46.0	diffuse thinking and focused thinking.
1:48.0	You'll hear back-to-back segments from Adam Robinson on the learning process.
1:52.0	Plus he explains how and why. from Adam Robinson on the learning process.
1:52.8	Plus he explains how and why your biggest insights
1:56.1	can often feel illogical at first.
1:59.2	Tyler Cowan will then explain how to use online experimentation to develop good judgment.
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