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30 days to better thinking and better living through critical thinking : a guide for improving every aspect of your life / Linda Elder and Richard Paul.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2013.Edition: Rev. and expanded [ed.]Description: xiv, 222 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780133092561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Thirty days to better thinking and better living with critical thinking
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.42ELD 23
LOC classification:
  • BF441 .E4 2013
Contents:
Introduction -- Discover your ignorance -- Strive to be a person of integrity: beware of your own hypocrisy -- Empathize with others -- Deliberately target your purposes -- Be a confirmist: think for yourself -- Clarify your thinking -- Be relevant: stick to the point -- Be reasonable -- Ask deep questions -- Distinguish questions of fact, preference and judgment -- Think through implications -- Distinguish information from inferences -- Don't be fooled by the words people use: look underneath words to -- Unspoken realities -- When you think you have arrived as a critical thinker, think again -- Be fair, not selfish -- Get control of your emotions -- Take control of your desires -- Don't dominate others; don't be a top-dog -- Don't be submissive: don't be an underdog -- Don't be brainwashed by the news media -- Carefully choose the ideas you take in from tv, ads, movies and the -- Internet -- Don't be bamboozled by politicians -- Don't be a blamer -- Don't be righteous: show mercy -- Vow to spend no time worrying -- Be a citizen of the world -- Do something, anything, to help make the world better -- See your development occurring in stages -- Educate yourself -- Figure out where to go from here -- Appendix glossary.
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Previously published under title: 25 days to better thinking & better living.

Introduction -- Discover your ignorance -- Strive to be a person of integrity: beware of your own hypocrisy -- Empathize with others -- Deliberately target your purposes -- Be a confirmist: think for yourself -- Clarify your thinking -- Be relevant: stick to the point -- Be reasonable -- Ask deep questions -- Distinguish questions of fact, preference and judgment -- Think through implications -- Distinguish information from inferences -- Don't be fooled by the words people use: look underneath words to -- Unspoken realities -- When you think you have arrived as a critical thinker, think again -- Be fair, not selfish -- Get control of your emotions -- Take control of your desires -- Don't dominate others; don't be a top-dog -- Don't be submissive: don't be an underdog -- Don't be brainwashed by the news media -- Carefully choose the ideas you take in from tv, ads, movies and the -- Internet -- Don't be bamboozled by politicians -- Don't be a blamer -- Don't be righteous: show mercy -- Vow to spend no time worrying -- Be a citizen of the world -- Do something, anything, to help make the world better -- See your development occurring in stages -- Educate yourself -- Figure out where to go from here -- Appendix glossary.

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