30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, Revised and Expanded
- By Linda Elder, Richard Paul
- Published Sep 21, 2012 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 6" x 9"
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-309256-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-309256-1
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Product Author Bios
DR. LINDA ELDER (Tomales, CA) President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. An educational psychologist, she has developed an original stage theory of critical thinking development, and co-authors a column for The Journal of Developmental Education.
DR. RICHARD PAUL (Tomales, CA) directs Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking, and chairs the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking. He has written eight books and 200+ articles on the subject, and been quoted in multiple publications, including The New York Times.
Better critical thinking can transform your life and help you improve every decision you make! Now, in just 30 days, master specific, easy-to-learn critical thinking techniques that help you cut through lies, gain insight, and make smarter choices in every area of your life -- from work and money to intimate relationships. World-renowned critical thinking experts Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul show how to overcome poor thinking habits caused by self-delusion or out-of-control emotions... clarify what you really want... recognize what you don’t know… ask better questions... resist brainwashing, manipulation, and hypocrisy... critically evaluate what you’re told by advertisers, politicians, your boss, and even your family… avoid worrying, conformism, and blame. Every day, you'll focus on a specific thinking habit, mastering practical strategies for achieving results, tracking your progress, gaining confidence, and getting smarter! Expanded, improved, and easier to use, Discover the Power of Critical Thinking, Revised and Expanded edition offers today's most complete, practical plan for using critical thinking to build a better life. This edition adds five new "days" of critical thinking workouts, delivering even more powerful "life improvement" ideas. Brand-new illustrations and diagrams help you see the direct relevance of critical thinking in your own life, and you'll find a practical new introduction to the authors' Paul-Elder Framework for Critical Thinking, which is now being used by critical thinkers worldwide!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Interesting Topic,
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The topic is a really great idea. There is an astounding lack of critical thinking in the world today. You can see it in the political polarization where people choose their own "facts" to believe. I know a certain friend who is quite intelligent and successful who tied himself in such a convoluted knot to "prove" that [insert political group] actually secretly conspires against [insert other group] that he actually ended up seriously trying to make the argument that his mood directly controlled his bank account balance. I'm not kidding you nor exaggerating at all; this dude has a job, pays his bills, balances his checkbook, and he backed himself into a corner feeling the need to defend a completely ridiculous argument to keep his world-view intact. He couldn't consider that maybe he'd been mistaken and was completely unable to see how silly he was being. Two weeks later when I kidded him about it he got serious and maintained I'd not adequately proved him wrong....Okay...
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Content, Mediocre Writing and Organization, By
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First of all the content in this book is excellent. There are so many critical thinking concepts and practices described in this book that I give it an easy 5 stars on content. This is good stuff. However, I didn't think the 30-day format worked. To their credit the authors tried to give an overall structure to the material in the 40 page introduction. And that material is excellent and well organized, I just wish that was the format of the whole book. The authors reference another book of theirs in this one that apparently goes deeper into the concepts. The writing wasn't exactly compelling either. However to be perfectly clear this is a good book. It is worth it for the material alone regardless of its organization.This book has Amazon's "Search Inside" feature which allows you to preview its contents. I urge you to take advantage of that feature. Recommended.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful
(Non)Critical Thinking - Or think critically about this but not that, By
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If you've ever wondered how our schools and universities could churn out surprisingly shallow thinking young adults then look no further than this book. It gives you a glimpse into what passes for intelligent insight for collegiate level discourse. Read the back of the book for an astounding list of fellow shallow thinking rubes that either did a blurb review as a professional courtesy (cross your fingers that this is the majority case) or are further examples of how ingrained bad thinking has become within circles that consider themselves intelligent.The book plunges right into sloppy sophomoric navel gazing with this gem from page 7: "We often ignore important problems that we could, with determination and good thinking, solve - problems such as world hunger, poverty and homelessness." Whew!! Reading through the rest of the book you find that these lofty goals are not going to be considered from a position of how to do this for the world but rather to the world. Petty... Read more |
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Day One: Discover Your Ignorance 47
Day Two: Strive to Be a Person of Integrity: Beware of Your Own Hypocrisy 51
Day Three: Empathize with Others 55
Day Four: Deliberately Target Your Purposes 57
Day Five: Don’t Be a Conformist: Think for Yourself 61
Day Six: Clarify Your Thinking 67
Day Seven: Be Relevant: Stick to the Point 71
Day Eight: Be Reasonable 73
Day Nine: Ask Deep Questions 77
Day Ten: Distinguish Among Questions of Fact, Preference, and Judgment 81
Day Eleven: Think Through Implications 87
Day Twelve: Distinguish Inferences from Assumptions 91
Day Thirteen: Don’t Be Fooled by the Words People Use: Look Underneath Words to Unspoken Realities 97
Day Fourteen: When You Think You Have Arrived as a Critical Thinker, Think Again 103
Day Fifteen: Be Fair, Not Selfish 107
Day Sixteen: Get Control of Your Emotions 111
Day Seventeen: Take Control of Your Desires 115
Day Eighteen: Don’t Dominate Others: Don’t Be a Top Dog 119
Day Nineteen: Don’t Be Submissive: Don’t Be an Underdog 123
Day Twenty: Don’t Be Brainwashed by the News Media 127
Day Twenty-One: Carefully Choose the Ideas You Take in from Television, Ads, Movies, and the Internet 131
Day Twenty-Two: Don’t Be Bamboozled by Politicians 135
Day Twenty-Three: Don’t Be a Blamer 139
Day Twenty-Four: Don’t Be Righteous: Show Mercy 143
Day Twenty-Five: Vow to Spend No Time Worrying 147
Day Twenty-Six: Be a Citizen of the World 151
Day Twenty-Seven: Do Something, Anything, to Help Make the World Better 155
Day Twenty-Eight: See Your Development Occurring in Stages 157
Day Twenty-Nine: Educate Yourself 163
Day Thirty: Figure Out Where to Go from Here 167
Reading Backwards 171
Recommended Readings to Augment the Strategies 173
Appendix: Glossary of Terms 177
Index 219
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