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Pluralsight

Enhancing Your Critical Thinking Skills

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This course will teach you how to use critical thinking skills to your advantage in any role.

Many individuals struggle with harnessing their critical thinking skills effectively due to the subconscious nature of their thought processes. In this course, "Mastering Critical Thinking: Neuroscience Insights," you’ll learn to develop awareness around your brain's behavior and enhance your critical thinking abilities. First, you’ll explore the fundamentals of neuroscience to understand how the brain functions. Next, you’ll learn to identify various states that can either support or impede your cognitive performance, including the fight-or-flight response and brain freezing.Finally, you’ll discover practical tactics for leveraging your critical thinking skills, such as recognizing conversational cues that may trigger reactive responses and understanding how to avoid being similarly influenced by others' survival mode reactions. By the end of this course, you’ll have a toolkit of methods to recognize and overcome inhibitors to your critical thinking skills, empowering you to make more effective decisions in both personal and professional contexts.

Syllabus

  • Introduction 1min
  • Successful Decision Making 17mins
  • Activating Optimized Critical Thinking 11mins
  • The Decision Making Process 14mins
  • Critical Thinking with Others 13mins
  • Conclusion 1min

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