Mastering Critical Thinking: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think!
by Chuck ClaytonPublish: Jun 01, 2024Advice & How ToGeneral Nonfiction
Book 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 powerf... ul 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!read more
BIOGRAPHY My education and professional experience are in engineering and business. I have a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. I have been a principal mechanical design and development engineer. I have also worked as a principal systems enginee... r, quality engineer, and Raytheon 6-Sigma expert. My primary work has been in the aerospace, computer, oilfield, defense industries, and education sectors.
I have been fascinated with the power of critical thinking ever since a class I took from Dr. Wayne Gertmenian (Dr. G.) in Microeconomics at Pepperdine University during my MBA program.
In sixteen weeks, Dr. G. taught us a great deal about Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and spiced up the class with religion, law, and investing. Throughout the course, Dr. G. repeatedly encouraged critical thinking. This inspired me to learn about and write about our brains' incredible power and usefulness when we think critically. Engineering, business, school, and life are much richer when we use the full power of our minds.
My recent books have been on the practical mathematics of poker. These include Mastering Poker Math, Volume 1, Mastering Poker Math, Volume 2, and the Mastering Poker Math Workbook. They are all available on Amazon.com.
I live in Georgetown, Texas, and enjoy visiting family and friends, reading, writing, exercising, traveling, playing Texas No-Limit Hold’em, Pickleball, Argentine Tango, investing, traveling, and more. I desire to give back and serve as the chairman of the board of advisors for ICAN, the International Cancer Advocacy Network, in the war against cancer.read more
