The Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly

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Introduction to Part Two

ou and I like to think of ourselves as clear thinkers, and

independent, too. Probably, neither is true, for reasons

that have pretty well been proven by a couple of generations

of psychologists. Thinking is a behavior, and one of the most

influential psychologists, Kurt Lewin, said that our behavior

is always shaped and supported by a field of forces. (Some of

Lewin’s work will be presented in Chapter 7.) Lewin died in

1947, but few individuals have made more contributions to

our understanding of how people behave in groups and in

workplaces, how we learn and change, and how our behavior

and our thinking is shaped. ...