Thinking Well in High Stakes Situations

Thinking Well in High Stakes Situations| Show Notes

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Summary

It's easy to believe high stakes situations - like a pandemic -
create an imperative to act first. But this is false! We cannot
take purposeful action, or well-reasoned action without thinking
first. This is counterintuitive to most us. When we're under
pressure to make a life-altering decisions, it's easy to believe
a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach might work well.
But especially when dealing with complex problems that affect us
in various way, high stakes situations create an imperative to
think first - before acting! To compound the issue, getting
others to make particular decisions in similar situations means
we are left with the power of persuasion. This is what makes life
difficult. It's not only that we experience problems, but those
problems are dynamic, and we cannot use force against others to
make decisions we want them to.


In this episode of Dare to Think, I've republished a discussion I
had with Doug Stuart at the Libertarian Christian Institute.
We're discussing the courses I teach online at mereliberty.com
about how to build and develop the skills of thinking well. Join
me, Kerry Baldwin as we Dare to Think about the importance of
thinking well in high stakes situations.

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Main Points of Discussion

01:49 Intro; Human Action - Do groups act?
05:53 Can people do things without thinking?
09:36 What do we mean by high stakes?
15:32 High stakes decisions and imperatives to make a
decision
 20:25 How should we treat experts and are they making
decisions for us?
27:57 Why we can't take action without thinking first?
30:20 Final thoughts
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