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The Ultimate Guide to Critical Thinking (140 Techniques)

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Overview

Become a better critical thinker by learning how to identify cognitive biases that get in the way of rational thinking.

What you'll learn:
  • Recognize when you or someone else is potentially operating under a cognitive bias
  • De-bias your own thinking so that you can process information more rationally
  • Build stronger arguments by scanning them for potential cognitive bias

In this course, you'll learn a collection of cognitive biases that will improve your critical thinking skills.

What is critical thinking?

It starts with the word critic...meaning to criticize.

Critical thinking is about taking a skeptical look at anything you hear or read.

It's about checking things out before assuming they are true.

Agood analogy is the antivirus scanner on your computer.

It download millions of "signatures"from the company who creates the software.

Each signature is tested against each file that the software scans. If anything in the file matches one of the virus "signatures", that means it's a potentially dangerous file and will be quarantined.

Cognitive biases are similar.

In this course youll learn dozens of these "signatures" that will help you debias your thinking so that you are less likely to fall victim to a cognitive bias distorting your thinking.

This course is unlike any other course I've created.

Each lecture has a standard formula:

1. The name of the cognitive bias

2. Any other synonyms (alternate names) for the cognitive bias

3. Asimple explanation of the bias

4. Areal world example of the cognitive bias in action

5. Commentary on how the cognitive bias evolved to be adaptive to the environment, and how it may be related to other cognitive biases(if applicable)

Get ready to take your thinking skills to the next level.

See you on the inside,

Timothy

Taught by

Timothy Kenny

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