Ask HN: Best books written on “How to think”?

0xCE07 hours ago
I have read many these kind of books, and I have found none of them to be helpful. They are just mangling delicious-sounding sentences.
I have found that the most effective way to think is to write your own book, your own expedition of the matter at hand. When you write a sentence/paragraph, you notice how poor/ugly/erroneous your writing is, and then you rewrite it. I love being noticing how wrong I am, because at that point I have learned something. This way, you have iterated and learned the matter, and learnings are not just in your brain with you all the time, but you also have externalized it in writing, and the passing of time shows if it is timeless bulletproof understanding/thinking/learning/whatever.
jruohonena day ago
Thinking is writing and writing is thinking, and thus also we've been pretty intense about the topic for a long time:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+write
Just two cents.

from previous thread, a lot of good suggestions.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797862
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224904

nofalsescotsmana day ago
A succinct book which is a good primer for thinking through things is "Rulebook for Arguments" by Anthony Weston. Quick to get through and understandable.
nextosa day ago
I really like The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Baggini & Fosl.
jackgolding18 hours ago
Learning to Learn the coursera course is always recommended

HenryBemisa day ago

  - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover by Ryan Holiday

brudgersa day ago
Philosophical Investigations
LLM’s are mechanisms simulating playing language games.