“The Power of Questioning Everything”
🧠 “I think, therefore I am.”
With just that one sentence, René Descartes shifted the world of philosophy — and today, it still holds incredible power for all of us.
In this reel, we explore how Descartes peeled back the layers of belief, assumption, and surface-level knowledge… until he found one unshakable truth:
👉 Thinking is proof of existence.
And he didn’t stop there. He challenged students to question everything around them:
🌳 “How do you know that’s a tree?”
🍎 “How do you know that’s an apple?”
🧩 That method of deep questioning became the foundation of critical thinking — a skill that’s more important today than ever before.
💥 Whether it’s a news headline, a social media post, an ad on a bus, or something someone tells you — you now have the power to ask, investigate, and think for yourself.
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This week, let’s go full Descartes mode:
✅ Question one thing you usually assume is true.
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