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Do you want to get to the truth of all matters and build stronger arguments? All it takes is thinking and questioning, but itÂ’s not so easyÂ…
Did you know that you have about 6,200 thoughts a day?
“Brain Meta-States Transitions Demarcate Tasks Across Contexts,” a 2020 study by Queen’s University on how new thoughts emerge, showed that your brain is a powerhouse, generating thousands of ideas a day.
Most of these are random impressions, many half-forgotten before fully formed. Others will be memories of the past or wish projection into the future; neither are extraordinary intellectual feats as they feed off of self-knowledge.
But what about information that comes from external sources?
Even though human beings are more informed than ever, many seem to have lost or never acquired the ability to assess the information they receive critically.
Fake news has reached such epidemic proportions that, according to Statistica, only 26 percent of Americans think they could recognize a fake news story. Worse, as much as 90 percent of Americans pass on fake news unintentionally.
This doesnÂ’t have to be you, and thatÂ’s what this book is here for.
