Improve Your Thinking, Improve Your LifeCan Your Thinking Be Your Problem?A How-To List for Dysfunctional LivingTake Your Thinking SeriouslyNo Intellectual Pain, No Intellectual GainThe Concepts, Principles, and Tools of Critical ThinkingWhy Critical Thinking?The Figuring MindAnalyze Your Thinking (Focusing on the Elements of Reasoning)Assess Your Thinking (Using Reasonable Standards)Systematically Apply Intellectual Standards to the Elements of Reasoning to Develop Intellectual TraitsPursue the Constellation of Intellectual TraitsUnderstand the Mind’s Three Distinctive FunctionsRecognize Thinking as the Key to Feelings and DesiresDistinguish Rational from Egocentric and Sociocentric ThoughtsUnderstand Egocentric Thinking as a ProblemDistinguish Egocentric Domination from Egocentric SubmissionUnderstand Sociocentric Thinking as a ProblemA Substantive Approach to Critical Thinking TargetsThe Thirty-Day PlanTips for Internalizing Each IdeaPlanning and Logging Your Progress