How To ThinkBy: Alan Jacobs How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem