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Simon Kuper

7 ways to be a great thinker

Here are the daily habits of highly intelligent people.

Most people are getting dumber. Largely because of the smartphone, we’re in an era of declining attention spans, reading skills, numeracy and verbal reasoning. How to buck the trend?

I’ve charted seven intellectual habits of the best thinkers. True, these people exist in a different league from the rest of us. To use an analogy from computing, their high processing power allows them to crunch vast amounts of data from multiple domains.

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Simon Kuper is a Financial Times columnist.

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