Jordan Peterson - The Best Way To Learn Critical Thinking

Psychology Professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson says that the best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write.

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[alicegrondin]

How to be a better thinker? Write. How to be a better writer? Read.

[onemanenclave]

'Articulate is the most dangerous thing you can possibly be.' - Jordan Peterson.

[jordankong]

"If your students are stupid they are not going to challenge you", deadly accurate words

[SturFriedBrains]

In college my favorite class was my hardest class (STEM classes notwithstanding). Roman Empire with Prof. Burkholder. The first essay I wrote for that class I thought was the best essay I'd ever written (and it was), and I thought it was going to blow him away.


I got a C- on that paper.


For the rest of the semester, I struggled up the ladder B-, B, B+, then finally an A- on my last essay. No one gets an A of any sort in Burkholder's classes. That essay is to me a much greater mark of pride than my degree. My degree is in a file cabinet somewhere, waiting to be scanned/copied for administrative purposes, whereas all my Roman Empire essays are in my desk and I look them over every six months or so just to review them; to remember the struggle and the writing lessons learned.

[rudylabsilica]

“If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely DEADLY. NOTHING CAN GET IN YOUR WAY.”

THANK YOU.

[CsharpPreza]

I like how people who post portions of his videos always give a link to the source video. Somehow being his fan and being a decent person seem to go well together.

[austinjrb]

3:25 by far THEE hardest eye roll I've ever seen in my life. Damn near rolled his head off his neck 😂

[Razear]

The pen is mightier than the sword. But unfortunately contemporary academia rewards students that are good at reciting the instructor rather than evaluating the arguments that students themselves have formulated.

[joeroy]

Fantastic video -- I have learned more from 2 weeks of Jordan Peterson than my Bachelor's and Master's degrees.

[oophelia]

I am so thankful that you opened with that. As a certified English teacher almost 20 years ago, I was at a job interview and told the administators my goal was to teach children critical reading, thinking and writing skills. I was laughed at and told I was supposed to say I would teach to the test. That was the year Common Core was implemented, after a large buyout was offered to seasoned teachers who probably knew better. Parents, public schools are not interested in making your children critical thinkers. That needs to be our job. It was a goal I made in raising my kids.

[AlienGuy]

Some of the most helpful advice of my life came from my Grandfather. He once told me that school wasn't actually meant to teach you what you need to know in life, beyond giving you a foundation to build on. School is actually meant to teach you HOW to learn. I never properly understood it while I was in school, but I eventually saw how powerful knowledge can actually be, and that all of the best knowledge has been found in my own pursuits, not in a classroom.

[Neilazbiker]

MATH
The other good way to learn critical thinking is to know math. The problem solving skills developed with advanced math courses not only provides the tools, but the ability to think deeply in other cognitive areas. Math combined with good writing skills is even deadlier, than good writing skills alone.

[BitesizedPhilosophy]

Hints for essay or narrative writing can be found here:
(from jordanbpeterson.com)

Sorry for missing 2 days in a row, I am having internet problems
and I brought my PC to a friend to keep the site updated and answer
messages. My ISP says it will be fixed by tomorrow, I hope that's true!

[martyes]

Peterson could not be speaking any more truth here!! As a university instructor myself I can tell you with absolute certainty marking an essay that is poorly written is one of the most difficult tasks you can have in academics. While on the flip side of this, marking an essay that is very well written is an incredibly pleasurable experience. If I could have the majority of my students writing well, my life and my job would be 100 times easier.

[LessonsInLife]

- Understand the connections between ideas
- Identify, construct, and evaluate arguments
- Detect inconsistencies and mistakes in reasoning
- Solve problems systematically identify
- The relevance and importance of idea
I read from book ;)

[MarkWrightPsuedo]

Dr. Jordan is EXACTLY RIGHT! I write for a living (I write organizational histories). Several years ago I thought that my writing skills could benefit from an exploration of critical thinking. After all, I reasoned, writing fully illustrates how you're thinking. Therefore, if I'm a better thinker, I automatically become a better writer. Besides, although I had an idea of what Critical Thinking was, I couldn't really articulate it, so I wasn't sure I even knew what it was. So I dove into this topic, a topic that has consumed a large part of my life. I have been and still am fascinated by it. One of the first things I discovered is that I was already a critical thinker in large measure as a result of my writing. What I really lacked was the vocabulary for what I was doing. I lacked a conceptual framework for thinking and reasoning. I lacked a disciplined way to analyze and improve upon thinking (either my own or someone else's). All of that is very valuable--but I had already acquired the skills (though I had no names for those skills) through writing itself. I wish I would have had training in critical thinking earlier in my life, it could have actually made me a better writer much faster,  but it's a chicken and egg question now. Writing IS thinking. Trying to improve upon that writing--that's adding criticality. That all by itself makes you a practicing critical thinker.

[tourch]

English was definitely my hardest subject in college, but when I wrote a good essay and actually ace it, I felt really good about myself.

[mickeysBALLIN]

“Thinking and writing are the same” very valuable I’ve never though of it that way

[gaston]

Reading makes a man broad.
Writing makes a man prepared.
Speaking makes a man concise.
Francis Bacon, paraphrase

[DaveBuikema]

I haven't written anything in 4 years. Recently I've been unsatisfied with my level of intellectual competence. Recently my professor told me that my class is going to write an essay a week for the next 6 months. And then this video shows up in my feed. Honestly, too many synchronicities are happening in my life to not believe in God. I feel so grateful for channels like this. Bless you