My Simple Habit for Smarter Book Reading

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I don’t believe critical thinking is a skill at all. Instead, most of what we refer to as critical thinking is simply knowing more about the topic being discussed. Experts can spot the fallacies in certain arguments because they’ve steeped themselves in the history of ideas and debates in the field for years. Newcomers have not, and therefore cannot. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01hr4rne7dcjar5472dk3fbyzf))

My preferred source for this type of rebuttal is scholarly book reviews. These tend to be written by experts in the field, whereas journalistic book reviews are often written by a non-expert (although this isn’t always true; be sure to check the byline). To find these scholarly reviews, simply go to Google Scholar and type “Name of Book” and “review” to find some examples. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01hr4rr773jh3hc1mg4hcvgysw))