Doubt: The forgotten skill of the future

We’re so used to outsourcing our thinking to others that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to really understand something from all perspectives. We’ve forgotten just how much work that takes. The path of least resistance, however, is just a click away. Reading headlines and skimming the news seems harmless, but it is harmful because it makes us over-confident — in our investments, our political views and other aspects of our lives too.

Doubt is needed as an antidote to this. In Svend Brinkmann’s excellent book “Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze”…