{"id":7260,"date":"2018-01-06T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2018-01-06T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:00:54","slug":"repostwhy-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/repostwhy-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things? &#8211; Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The ability to think critically, on the other hand, has been associated with wellness and longevity. Though often confused with intelligence, critical thinking is not intelligence.\u00a0Critical thinking is a collection of cognitive skills that allow us to think rationally in a goal-orientated fashion, and a disposition to use those skills when appropriate.\u00a0Critical thinkers are amiable skeptics.\u00a0They are flexible thinkers who require evidence to support their beliefs and recognize fallacious attempts to persuad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things\/\">Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things? &#8211; Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to think critically, on the other hand, has been associated with wellness and longevity. Though often confused with intelligence, critical thinking is not intelligence.\u00a0Critical thinking is a collection of cognitive skills that allow us to think rationally in a goal-orientated fashion, and a disposition to use those skills when appropriate.\u00a0Critical thinkers are amiable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/repostwhy-do-smart-people-do-foolish-things-scientific-american\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things? &#8211; Scientific American&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}