April 2014
Beginner
240 pages
4h 49m
English
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills
by Michael Kallet
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INDEX
A
checkerboard illusion, 165
exercises, 171
getting started, 170
old dog, 166
Takeaway, 171
Absolute truths, 86, 90, 93, 100–101
Absorption capability, 192, 195, 197
Anaya, Ivan Fernandex, 104
I don't know, 39
perspectives, 137
Think Outside the Box, 160
Why?, 36
exercises, 61
getting started, 60
a miss, 63
Takeaway, 61
what's next?, 59
ASAP, 183
bad, 119
conversation, 127
critical thinking mode, 110
invalidate, 39, 112, 118, 150–151
Takeaway, 113
validated, 145
Automatic mode, 5–6, 8, 19, 62, 88, 110, 112, 124
Automatic thinking, 1, 4, 19, 84, 108, 120
B
Bacon, Sir Francis, 33
change, 107
different, 107
ideological, 109
Takeaway, 109
Benefits, xv, 1–2, 7, 9–11, 79, 196–197, 205
Better mousetrap, 155
Biases, 7
Boeing, 59
Boundaries:
beyond, 172
knowledge, 39
outside, 161
Box:
boundaries, 161
inside, 161
premise, 161
Brain:
changes things, 166
hides information, 8
exercises, 26
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