Society Is Stuck on the Lowest Level of Thinking

Summary by Krater

This video explores Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives as a metaphor for human thinking, explaining the six levels from remembering to creating and why modern society is stuck at the bottom.

From the video

Answers: Why is society stuck at the bottom of Bloom's taxonomy and how can we reach higher levels of thinking?

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Cognitive Levels
• Information Overload
• Critical Thinking
• Tribal Beliefs
• Metacognition

What it concludes

• Most people never climb past the lowest level of thinking, regurgitating information without examination.
• The more information we have, the less we seem to understand, creating an illusion of comprehension.
• The brain uses as little mental energy as possible and prefers shortcuts and heuristics.
• Difficulty is the doorway to intelligence and discomfort is the signal of rising into higher cognition.
• Identity-based thinking causes beliefs to become tribal and collapses the pyramid into a single step.
• Metacognition is the spiritual evolution of the intellect that allows us to watch our own minds and overcome cognitive biases.