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“The untrained mind will usually take the path of least resistance.”
Robert Gula in Nonsense: A Handbook of Logical Fallacies: Let’s not call them laws; and, since they’re not particularly original, I won’t attach my name to them. They are merely a description of...
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What Is Critical Thinking?
Based on our dysfunctional national dialogue, Hamilton College Professor Paul Gary Wyckoff articulates the critical thinking skills he wants his students to learn. 1. The ability to think empirically,...
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“Everyone has filters to select information that receives attention.”
These excerpts were taken from Roger Fisher’s excellent book Getting It Done: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge. Everyone has filters to select information that receives attention. If we don’t...
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What Matters More in Decisions: Analysis or Process?
Think of the last major decision your company made. Maybe it was an acquisition, a large purchase, or perhaps it was whether to launch a new product. Odds are three things went into into that decision:...
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How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Decisive, a new book by Chip and Dan Heath comes out today. The book tackles one of the most critical topics in work and life: how to make better decisions. “A remarkable aspect of your mental life is...
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli’s book, The Art of Thinking Clearly, is a compendium of systematic errors in decision making. While the list of fallacies is not complete, it’s a great launching pad into the best of what...
View ArticleIs Our Faulty Memory Really So Bad?
“Though the behaviors…seem perverse, they reflect reliance on a type of navigation that serves the animals quite well in most situations.” — Daniel Schacter *** The Harvard psychologist Daniel Schacter...
View ArticleDaniel Kahneman: Debunking the Myth of Intuition
In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses the innate weakness of human thought, deceptive memories and the misleading power of intuition. By studying human...
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In one of the more in-depth and wide-ranging Q&A sessions on the freakonomics blog has run, Daniel Kahneman, whose new book is called Thinking, Fast and Slow, answered 22 questions posted by...
View ArticleFocused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking
Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both. *** As...
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