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Woo-kyoung Ahn | Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better


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Welcome to In Search of Wisdom, a podcast by the Perennial Leader Project.

In this episode, my guest is Prof. Woo-kyoung Ahn, the author of Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better. Dr. Ahn is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her main area of research interest is higher-level reasoning processes. In particular, the study of how people learn and represent concepts and causal relations and how causal explanations shape our thinking processes.

In the conversation, Dr. Ahn and I discuss,

  • Why cognitive psychology can make the world a better place
  • The allure of fluency and why it matters
  • The difference between rumination and contemplation
  • The reason “why” questions are generally unanswerable
  • How to think about the future self
  • Wisdom in daily life and much more

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