Critical Thinking is Dying and Nobody Noticed

History is filled with moments that make no sense. [music] Entire groups of seemingly intelligent people making decisions that, at least in hindsight, just seem totally stupid, disasters that could have been avoided. And there are atrocities that should have been unthinkable. And when we look back, we always ask the same question. Well, what were they

thinking? But what if that question is inherently the wrong one to ask? What if they weren't thinking at all? Or at least they weren't thinking critically? Because the uncomfortable truth is that critical thinking isn't something that we permanently have. It's something we can lose. And right now, our society seems to be collectively losing it

faster than ever before. We are outsourcing our thinking to AI. Our opinions are being outsourced to social media influencers and our desires to algorithms. And the more we do it, the less we notice it happening until one day we'll look up from our phones and realize that we're no longer making decisions for our own lives. We're just

accepting them. But it's not too late. We can change course right now and build a better [music] future. But for that to happen, we must first understand what's causing it. This is the death of critical thinking and how to save your mind. Group think is a psychological phenomenon where our desires for harmony

within a group overrides our ability to think clearly under pressure to fit in. We stop questioning things. We stop thinking for ourselves and simply do as we're told. To make matters worse, in an effort to maintain the status quo, we might even join together to silence those we don't agree with. This is how