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Jonny Thomson
Author and philosopher
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a columnist at Big Think and is the award-winning, bestselling author of three books that have been translated into 22 languages.
Jonny is also the founder of Mini Philosophy, a social network of around two million curious, intelligent minds. He's known all over the world for making philosophy accessible, relatable, and fun.
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The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.
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Jonny Thomson walks through Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 3 conditions for stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity.
The philosopher Svetlana Boym argues that "nostos" encourages people to reject the world as it is and seek to return to a better time — real or imagined.
People are almost always different to how we imagine them
How a culture of independence gave rise to a philosophy of self-reliance, solitude, and inner authority.
Throwing away the narratives that pull us down and make us unhappy.
Don't reek of onions or take up too much space.
The family might be a terrible way to raise kids. But it's the best we have.
If you're going to relax, don't do it halfway.
A white rabbit appears up ahead. What do you do?
Who do you want to be today?
Why we shouldn't necessarily outsource our thinking to dead people.
What the near-death experiences of daffodils can teach us about resilience, death, and becoming someone new.
A free and happy bird does not pace the room.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
"I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
Nick was always an angry boy, but he was unlucky as well.
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