Week 2 Lesson 1 Critical Thinking Amanda Pochatko Obstacles to CT Critical Thinking is hard and requires awareness‚ practice‚ and motivation Two main categories of obstacles Psychological (how we think) Philosophical (what we think) Psychological Obstacles No one is immune to these types of obstacles Our fears‚ attitudes‚ motivations‚ and desires all play into this category of obstacles Can be countered with awareness 1 Week 2 Lesson 1 I often doubt my view of things. I don’t
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-1- THINKING STRATEGICALLY What is Strategic Behaviour? The following few pages provide an overview of the course‚ Strategic Game Theory for Managers. How should people behave in society? Our answer does not deal with ethics or etiquette. Nor do we aim to compete with philosophers‚ preachers‚ or even Emily Post. Our theme‚ although less lofty‚ affects the lives of all of us just as much as do morality and manners. This course is about strategic behavior. All of us are strategists‚ whether we
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Positive Thinking The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life’s direction. Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life. Positive and negative are directions. Which direction do you choose? Positive thinking is expecting‚ talking and visualizing with certainty what you want to achieve‚ as an accomplished fact. Riches‚ mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind. Reality is the mirror of your
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The issue of unnatural acts and historical thinking had become debatable in most of the Congressional debates in 1995. The citizens had become confused between the two and therefore they did not know which one was the best to describe the nation’s history. As a result‚ the Americans have never been convinced that history’s place is appropriate for curriculum purposes. However‚ there are various reasons as to why the Americans do not recognize the study of history as being important in a curriculum
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positive thinking "Easy As Counting to Ten". Why do so many people readily shuck their responsibilities at the first sign of trouble? After all‚ are we not all born winners? Why are so many born winners willing to be counted out just when others desperately need to count on them? We already know the answer. Just when we need it the least‚ that old bugaboo of past negative conditioning has a nasty habit of showing up. Winners‚ learn to overcome their prior negative conditioning by reconditioning
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Positive Thinking There are many techniques that I have come across to do this. Some of the most practical are: - Expose your mind to the right things. - Watch the right movies. - Listen to the right music. - Read the right books. - Associate with the right people. Stay away from negative people – they will drain you of your energy and drag you down with them. Avoid them like the plague. Thinking right is not a quick-fix process. You cannot change 20 year old habits in one week. You
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Chap-5 Effective Thinking A) Criteria for assessing and selecting thinkers: 1. Originality of ideas 2. Impact of ideas 3. Presentation style 4. Written communication 5. Loyalty of followers 6. Business sense 7. International outlook 8. Rigour of research 9. Accessibility 10. The guru Factor “I think‚ therefore I am” - Rene Descartes B) Thinking: Meaning & nature • We exist because
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Critical Thinking The concepts of critical thinking and perception are both gaining increasing importance in the world today. Critical thinking allows one to understand difficult concepts in a manner that is clearer and more defined. One can more readily understand those concepts if they employ critical thinking. In all portions of everyday life‚ a person is expected to make independent judgments. Those judgments are based on experience and knowledge. Without the ability to think critically‚ every
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Deductive Thinking Logical thinking is a process that has two different methods. Within logical thinking‚ there is deductive thinking and inductive thinking. In deductive thinking‚ the reasoning starts with either two‚ but can be more premises‚ then results in an ending that follows those premises. The syllogism is used in deductive thinking. Categorical‚ hypothetical‚ and disjunctive syllogisms are three different types used for deductive thinking. A categorical syllogism uses a form of argument
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LATERAL THINKING: CREATIVITY STEP BY STEP Edward De Bono Harper Collins‚ 1990 Why the total majority of great things happens in our minds when we are doing something completely different than work? In this book‚ Dr. De Bono is trying to explore this “heureka paradox” and other still relatively unknown thought processes via his lateral thinking theory. The LATERAL THINKING was introduced by the author in 1967. It was aimed to destroy the old established ways of thinking and support creativity
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