30 days to better thinking and better living through critical thinking : a guide for improving every aspect of your life /
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| Lingua: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
FT Press,
c2013.
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| Edizione: | Rev. and expanded [ed.]. |
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Sommario:
- Introduction
- Discover your ignorance
- Strive to be a person of integrity: beware of your own hypocrisy
- Empathize with others
- Deliberately target your purposes
- Be a confirmist: think for yourself
- Clarify your thinking
- Be relevant: stick to the point
- Be reasonable
- Ask deep questions
- Distinguish questions of fact, preference and judgment
- Think through implications
- Distinguish information from inferences
- Don't be fooled by the words people use: look underneath words to
- Unspoken realities
- When you think you have arrived as a critical thinker, think again
- Be fair, not selfish
- Get control of your emotions
- Take control of your desires
- Don't dominate others; don't be a top-dog
- Don't be submissive: don't be an underdog
- Don't be brainwashed by the news media
- Carefully choose the ideas you take in from tv, ads, movies and the
- Internet
- Don't be bamboozled by politicians
- Don't be a blamer
- Don't be righteous: show mercy
- Vow to spend no time worrying
- Be a citizen of the world
- Do something, anything, to help make the world better
- See your development occurring in stages
- Educate yourself
- Figure out where to go from here
- Appendix glossary.