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💬 How do you usually handle disagreements?

I would keep asking them why, repeatedly until they start seeing their plan crumble , at that point I will say May I offer you my thoughts on an alternative I am thinking about?

Hello, how are you? I am a regular viewer of your UA-cam channel. I came here to say that- "Your channel always leaves me excited for the next upload!" Good Luck

This is a lot like saying cars suck because the Model T wasn't very fast.

I do hope we can repurpose it to auto fight all the bs on the web. Like it’s easier to dish out bs propoganda than it is to counter it. Maybe ai could be a game changer and argue with trolls for us:

well yeah obviously???

I'm Not A Genius, I'm Just Insane 🫴🌈

That's wrong explanation of ChatGPT. It doesn't pull the data from internet. You don't know how Deep learning works

In my perspective if yout in a meeting and you need to formulate what you think. That is a case where you can avoid the question if you have enough skill. Politicians avoid questions all the time with skill

I concur wholeheartedly with everything you said in this video. I have looked at other contributors on UA-cam who have aired their views on all matters on the subject of thinking. I have to affirm that you are light years ahead of the competition on the issue of clarity of message. Well done; and keep producing your highly informative weekly videos.

Teaching skillful use of AI tools like Chat GPT like is absolutely crucial at this point in time, especially for young people whom will be growing up alongside it. Thank you for spreading information like this that doesn't demonize it, but rather instructs meaningful learning from it.

I was a substitute teacher in a high school English Lit. class one day when I overheard some students talking about (joking about, maybe?) having an LLM write their homework. It was an opinion essay, so I told them, "If we're curious about what chatGPT thinks, we'll ask it ourselves. Your teacher wants to know what you think. Don't outsource your opinions! Especially not to a language model."

🎉 that's what I'm doing right now, Marta. I try to elaborate in a better way first, my prompt, my thoughts, than I ask chatgpt to make some improvement, suggestions over it. Thanks for the good reflections, Marta.

When it comes to thinking through writing can you give an example if how would do that at a high level? If for example one is thinking about the topic of climate change what would one's process be like. If you don't have an idea on the topic you would need to do some research. So is the process as simple as : research and write?

Yes! Exactly this. I was talking to a guy on a "productivity" subreddit and he uses ChatGPT to answer emails, texts and for creating a lot of communication. I'm like dude, you're letting an algorithm do all the thinking for you! I swear it's just going to be computers talking to computers in the not too distant future.

I totally agree! 💯 Still thank you for the reminder ;)

The news is the worst way to learn about the world. It’s only useful to ask “why tf is this happening???” Or “why tf does this keep happening” also if you research all the intractable conflicts,. All news is just recycling these conflict all the time because they are intractable. But there is a good website called “beyond intractability” that I’ve been meaning to do more reading in, put together by two conflict and peace study PhD’s.

These are all really great suggestions! I have never heard anyone talk about the high need for cognition before, but have felt it so deeply. I think people tend to frame it a little negatively sometimes and put it in the bucket of overthinking and overanalyzing. I am glad i came across your video. One thing i do is to take an opinion i hold that i have never questioned and ask myself how my circumstances and experiences in life might have led me to have that opinion and how it might be biased. I think that if done sincerely, it gets us closer to the state of 'seeing truth' and dropping our biases as much as possible

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The great and mighty algorithm recommended this video, I liked it and I subscribed! But OMG, aren't you exhausted? How do you have the energy to keep this level of cognition going? I say this all with a smile but am interested to know where you stand with this. I ask as after a day of work in Higher Education I am often tired/exhausted and want as little mental challenge as possible.

This is the kind of content I didn’t know I was looking for. 😌 Such a nice reframe! I was excited to play with my cats this morning thinking this way (that the play isn’t just for them, I can have my needs met in a different way from the same activity). The resistance I’ve developed surrounding play was softened. Thank you!

What if I have a need for cognition that is specifically centered around human relationships? I feel drawn to toxic relationships because they feel like a code to “hack.”

Does highly cognitive person mean adhd because i have adhd and this advice helps me cope with daily life.

I also think there's another major problem that you didn't talk about here: not all friends like to have a high cognitive conversation 😔. I would love to hear your thoughts about how to find like minded people. P.s. I'm happy I found your channel in that sense❤

Thank you for your advices. I just like to add that some of the advices sounded like something we would do anyway. (Like thinking how the mirror works and why) but I think it would be more productive to use the cognitive energy for some tasks that would benefit us in a longer term. For example when I'm feeling the need for cognitive challenge, I start a more challenging book (philosophy genre maybe) or I start a challenging project in my own major. Hope this helps😁

Why aim for an intellectual life? The highly developed mind (or the potential for such) is what distinguishes humans from most, if not all, other animals. The more we develop our minds, the more human we become. Thank you for the insightful video.

What would you add to this list that works for you? 🧠

I use the ‘record voice memo’ on my phone, since I always carry it:)

36 But every time you hesitated for a 1 it made me doubt my 2:) Fun exercise, some thoughts: - Instead of criticizing or questioning the “true” intent and value of this test, I’m going for a more celebratory approach. This was fun and self-affirming! - To all those interpreting this exercise as just another breeding-ground for attitudes of unhealthy superiority and arrogance, please consider my reassurances that most people scoring very high here are acutely aware of their significant weaknesses and challenges in other and important parts of life. - The validation for my 2’s to those questions seeming to determine if the tester ALWAYS wants to deeply understand everything (like how a car works) or always analyzes and theorizes even about the most mundane utilitarian task, is that a)such a person does not exist, and b)people often tell me I overthink mundane or utilitarian tasks, and c)admittedly, for more than a few of such tasks, say, at my workplace, I often have already acquired a high level of understanding and skill, which then allows me to comfortably complete those tasks quickly and pragmatically. - I strongly resonate with the UA-camr’s comments about thinking. Only now later in my life (50’s) have I fully embraced my deep love for creative thinking, especially synthesizing new abstract insights after deconstructing established theories. And, just like an artist that deliberately goes into nature to find ‘that scenery’ they know will kick their inspiration and creativity into high-gear, I also have been fortunate to find certain particular activities that usually can just ‘open the faucet’ of creative thoughts and theories. My point being, it’s absolutely a hobby, and one I will never give up.

The act of writing your thoughts down frees your mind for more thoughts and thoughts about what you just thought about. The other way to free your mind for new thoughts is to forget your previous thought.

It seems difficult to find someone else who also enjoys thinking and who also likes sharing thoughts.

Rather than using pen and paper to record our thoughts and ideas, could we not just type them directly into a program on our smartphone and/or our laptop?

I watched a podcast where Steve, from diary of a CEO, debates with Doctor K, from HealthyGamerGG, about the overall mental situation nowadays. Doctor K came out with the idea of going somewhere quiet for once and do nothing for... no set amount of time. Why no specific goal? Because if you set yourself a goal, your mind will just do believing it's for being more productive. The hardest thing for us to do nowadays is, ironically and literally, nothing.

First of all you talk to much about yourself when giving the questions. The test is for the audience to take. Secondly, you seem too confident (almost arrogant) when you give yourself so many "2" scores. People who think a lot, especially about hard problems as I do in philosophy, usually are not so sure about their answers (as sign of a good thinker). My score was only 23 points.......yet I spend most of my day (and time in bed thinking creatively) thinking and writing about all sorts of problems. I have also taught myself Chinese (reading and writing) and a few other East Asian languages and Koine Greek. No one would say I am not a thinker......yet my score is far lower than yours. I wonder what psychologists have to say about the quality of this "Need for Cognition" test? I will have to research it and find out.

This was good advice to take.

The shadow from your mic adds a rather fetching goatee. 😁 Having the mic on the opposite side of your face to the direction of your light source will avoid this.

“Need for cognition” ?

This video is too vague to really give anyone outside your regular viewership context as to what you're talking about; but a link to the full length video would be welcome

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36. IMO, the test should be answered in an all-things-being-equal way and not with qualifiers like, "Well, when I'm tired, I tend not to want to X, so therefore I'm a 1."

"Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page". Rickover from The Rickover Effect (1992) by Theodore Rockwell and one of my all time favourite quotes. I write a lot. I think you are explaining it very well. However, multiplications I will usually do in my mind - that's not a complex problem ;-) Explaining that would go beyond a simple comment but I would recommend to everyone to try it: it gives you a feeling for the numbers. You will become able to spot a numerical mistake at a glance and start to understand quantities and relations in the real world. It's probably just as important as writing down your ideas about complex problems.

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I intentionally create tasks for myself that challenge my reasoning, intuition and knowledge even when they have no other purpose. I am currently busy with such a project that has taken me over three years and I have some way to go. When I come to a particularly frustrating and challenging part of a project, where thoughts of giving up might pop into my head, my mantra is that "the harder a problem is to solve, the fewer people will have solved it before". An extension of this is that sooner or later I will be solving problems no human has ever solved in history. I tend to seek out forums where complex ideas are discussed. Mostly I find that conversations in such places are short lived, trolled by troublemakers, populated by people who have little grasp of reality or visited by those with only a passing interest in the issue. Examples are conversations on the nature of time, the origins of avian flight, alternative ideas about the big bang, the evolution of consciousness, the roots of perception, robotic intelligence, the role of language in consciousness and so on. Since I was very young I had the need to know how everything around me works. When others were playing computer games, reading comics or playing soldiers or dolls, I sat reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I remember often watching workmen at building sites to earn how they do things. To this day I always have multiple projects on the go that are the output of tons of thinking about stuff people don't normally think much about. I wake up in the morning with thoughts of a problem I am working through swirling around my head. In the middle of the night I have got up and jotted down notes about ideas I have had for solving a difficult step in a project. I also discovered during Covid that I score 96/100 on the autism spectrum. Isolation was no issue for me at all. If I go ten days without seeing another live human it doesn't phase me at all. On the Myers Briggs test I came out as an INTJ. My archetype is "the inventor". I also tend to type longer answers than most. 🤔

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I hate to say this, but if you're somebody who is taking tests to know how smart you are, then you're not really that smart.

31. I think our answer was obvious by the fact that we clicked on this video. Or even better, why UA-cam shows it to me

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it's a little bit of an oxymoron to be taking tests about cognitive abilities if you are cognitively gifted. This is because tests would really not show or prove anything apart from perhaps speed of processing but it's difficult to abstract depth from tests. The best way i can think of is having a conversation with a person and gauging how well developed their fluid intelligence is and or their crystalized intelligence is.

27 - I racked up a handful of 1's in the later half of questions. There are nuances here that I feel are left out/not thought of, though? I enjoy the "complex problem"-solving and the like, but I feel like there's a place and a time for simple, trivial tasks as well, as they might be fulfilling in other ways. "What's 2+2?" Is a trivial question, but what if I'm asked that by a 5 year old, who doesn't comprehend it, and wants to learn? Or maybe your grandparents can't quite figure out UA-cam, and need your help? These smaller tasks can also be enjoyable, albeit in a different way - the "reward structure" is entirely different. There's also a vague notion of "difficult for the sake of difficulty" incorporated in some questions that I don't see the need for. Take question 15; the "important" aspect of the task is doing a lot of heavy lifting, imo. If the easy thing is important as well, my pragmaticism would "force" me to go for the easy win, at least some of the time. Or question 7; some problems, in some settings, punish you for "thinking too hard" - a school exam, for instance. Any time spent overthinking is time wasted, and only thinking "the correct amount" is required/ideal. Do highly cognitive people necessarily HAVE to make things as hard as possible for themselves, all the time, for maximum stimulation, even at their own detriment? On another note - in a world that's increasingly "intellectual" - I've come to appreciate the odd physical task that much more, especially if it's masked as a game of sorts. The "Ninja Warrior" obstacle courses look really cool for that very reason. Same thing with regards to escape rooms, or just casual bowling, minigolf, etc. Anyway, fun thought experiment!

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