We Don't Have a Learning Crisis — We Have a Thinking Crisis. Here's the Difference.

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 30, 2026 · 36m

More information is available to us right now than any generation in human history. And we are thinking less clearly, less deeply, and less curiously than ever before. That is not a coincidence. Katie Trowbridge has spent her career as an educator, bestselling author, and TEDx speaker studying exactly what is happening to our capacity for deep thought — in schools, in workplaces, and in daily life. What she has found is that access to information was never the bottleneck. Thinking was. And the conditions that produce genuine curiosity, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving are being…