Mastering Critical Thinking: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think!
by Chuck ClaytonPublish: Jun 01, 2024Advice & How To General NonfictionBook Overview
Learn How to Think, Not What to Think!Mastering Critical Thinking has been created for all serious individuals who want to learn and use practical critical thinking skills effectively in school, business, and everyday life. You will learn two major areas:
How to Critically Think
This book teaches powerful tools, techniques, methodologies, and resources to apply complex reasoning, understand, actively learn, make informed decisions, solve problems, and achieve objectives. You will learn to observe, research, and analyze using evidence to verify or dispute information and separate results from rhetoric. When critical thinking applies to social relationships and institutions, it taps into human nature. Exploring psychology and sociology is done whenever it adds to understanding a situation, circumstance, decision, or problem.
How to Use Your Critical Thinking Skills Effectively Knowing critical thinking skills isn’t enough. Powerful thinking takes time, practice, and patience to apply these skills. Integrating critical thinking into your everyday life will serve you well. These skills are key to having a deeper understanding of the world and how we can help become more productive and useful to ourselves and others.
In summary, this book is designed to help fill the severely lacking gap in today’s formal education system.
"It doesn’t matter how smart you are
if you don’t stop and think.’”
~ Thomas Sowell
Learning practical critical thinking skills are instrumental in creating an exciting, engaging, and meaningful future with purpose. When change comes, which it will, you will have the skills to adjust and adapt in school, work, and life.
Book Layout
Mastering Critical Thinking has four sections, fourteen chapters, and six appendices.
They are:
Section I: Foundational Critical Thinking Skills
Chapter 1 Key Elements of Critical Thinking
Chapter 2 Critical Thinking Land Mines
Chapter 3 Exploring Our Multiple Intelligences
Section II: Mastering Critical Thinking
Chapter 4 Critical Thinking Tools, Techniques, & Methods Part I
Chapter 5 Critical Thinking Tools, Techniques, & Methods Part II: Deep Dives
Chapter 6 Decision-Making with Imperfect Information
Chapter 7 Knowledge, Decisions & Consequences
Section III: Critical Thinking Applications
Chapter 8 Pivoting in Life
Chapter 9 Results Versus Rhetoric Part I: Conflicting Visions
Chapter 10 Results Versus Rhetoric Part II: Free Market Capitalism
Chapter 11 Results Versus Rhetoric Part III: Socialism
Chapter 12 Results Versus Rhetoric Part IV: Free Market Capitalism Versus Socialism
Section IV: Becoming a New Breed of Critical Thinker
Chapter 13 Keys to Increase Your Critical Thinking Skills
Chapter 14 Moving Forward
Appendices
Appendix A Structural Problems in American Schools
Appendix B Books for Further Study
Appendix C Deep Dives into Government Programs
Appendix D Gathering Facts, Data, & Empirical Evidence
Appendix E How to Do Comparison Studies
Appendix F How to Do Projects
In summary, Mastering Critical Thinking is packed with powerful information to help you create an exciting, engaging, and meaningful future!
