Analysis Of This Will Make You Smarter By John Brockman

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Everyone has a general interest in becoming more intelligent, so reading books and articles is the most interesting and simple way to do so. On the other hand, when someone tries to make you read into a belief or concept that is not in your original core of values, it gets tough. Being able to wrap you head around the ideas without having any sort of bias is seemingly impossible. This same difficulty applies to the book; “This Will Make You Smarter” edited by John Brockman. You may ask why the cover of the writing says “edited by”, and that is because these are the works of many other authors put together in correlation to John Brockman 's ideas. Throughout the book John uses these other authors ' works to create an image of scientific individuality from person to person. This means he is attempting to give every reader more 'tools ', or ideas, in their minds about how to think a certain way to make them smarter by …show more content…

I agree with some of the main ideas in John Brockman 's book, such as his chapter titled “cycles” on page 170, where he explains that, just as there are large cycles such as the seasons, our day to day bodies also go through smaller cycles. However, the biggest main idea in the book is the one that I do not agree with. Progress and scientific thinking to John Brockman, as well as all of the other authors, is thought of as a law of the universe. In other words, there is no way to get the progress you want or to be intelligent if you believe things are going to just 'go your way '. Evaluating this type of thinking and going about life is not easy for me to do because I believe in hard work paying off, but I also believe in superstition, karma, and the afterlife. These two concepts are distinctly separate, but in my opinion they work in harmony. Brockman is the type of scientist that only believes in the 'rational ' way of

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