Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573922374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 445 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stanford Mommaerts-Brown said Allen delivers. Again.. I love Steve Allen and his style (flair?), but here is a thesis, and I agree completely with that thesis. I wish that he were still alive to hear his thoughts, (and, yes, he does think and not just repeat mumbo-jumbo), on today, meeting with the minds of other great persons. It might just have been The Start of Something Big.. A Customer said An Excellent Captivating book. As an old fan of Steve Allen, I clearly remember his clever comedy and excellent wit from which many of today's hosts derive their ideas. This book shows a more serious side of Steve Allen who presents ways you can improve the quality of life in an easy to read manner, giving helpful examples. It's a self help book that doesn't read like a self help book. Although this book shows some of Steve's biases and strong personal opinions, I believe this book deserves a top rating for his contribution to helping us understand ourselves better. Read it with an open mind. As for th. Fred Ringwald said Disappointing scholarship: what was he thinking?. For a book that presumes to teach us to think better, this is disappointing scholarship. Its flaws include: (1) It includes only an anecdotal diagnosis of the problem, that as a society we are getting dumber. Scientific American has recently documented an overall rise in IQ scores, though: does this mean we're really getting smarter? This book doesn't even approach this kind of discussion: there's no attempt at objective or statistical analysis, just a long string of anecdotes on egregiously dumb behavior that anyone has seen, which may or may not mean anything. It looks
Labeling the ineptitude phenomenon as "dumbth," Allen has probed the depths of mass ignorance in thinking, speech, and actions for more than thirty years as he observed increased inefficiency, shoddy workmanship, bad service, and an overall breakdown in the capacity to reason. dum-th) adj: a tendency toward muddleheadedness, or willful stupidity appearing in all segments of American life.Updated, expanded with 20 new ways to think better, and highlighted with a new introduction, this is Steve Allen's humorous and provocative examination of contemporary thought or lack of it in our society.When it first appeared nearly a decade ago, "Dumbth": and 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter was hailed by critics across the country as the book that would wake up Americans to their tendency toward poor thinking. Today, while politicians and school boards play into the popular foolishness by proposing use of "dumbed down" texts and a street language called "ebonics" to reach students, Allen urges another kind of education.Allen explains the problem of fuzzy thinking in detail, and optimistically proposes many simple yet necessary remedies to "dumbth" in the 101 rules for good thinking, reading, writing, speaking, and, most importantly, reasoni
Steve Allen (1921-2000) was known as television's renaissance man. You can learn more about this legendary entertainer by visiting his official Web site at SteveAllenonline. . Allen was the creator and original host of the Tonight Show and the award-winning PBS series Meeting of Minds. He authored more than fifty books and composed over 8,500 songs
"Allen deserves credit for addressing a very real and growing national problem." -- Booklist (Featured Review)"Readers will find entertaining anecdotes--and something to think about." -- Library Journal