Mental Models For Critical And Strategic Thinking: The General Thinking Concepts For Better Reasoning, Decision Making, Deep Analysis And Advanced Learning

By Phillip T. Erickson

Don't Ever Want To Lose Out On Achieving Super Success In Life on Account of Your Not Possessing The Ability To Think Critically? Then Read On.

Are you one of those people who find it difficult to think critically in a manner that would take you ahead in life by helping you fare better at facing crunch situations in life? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if you could improve your conversational intelligence and develop the ability to thinkin a manner that puts you in a good place? Have you always been awed at the sight of some people being able to conduct themselves with ease in the most difficult of situations? Would you like to be one of those people? Do you also worry about your inadequate emotional maturity? Does your panicky behavior become a stumbling block in your personal and professional growth? What if you were told that you could find an amazing way of greatly enhancing your ability to think critically with the help of time tested thinking models? What if we told you that you could leverage these mental models to make great progress in all spheres of life? Do you think that there is nothing upon the face of this world that would help you become that sorted person completely in control of him or herself and the situation that they are in? Then this book is what squarely addresses your concerns. 

You need to look no further than this masterfully created tome about using mental models to master the art of critical thinking and thinking strategically. The book will teach you how to analyze better, reason better and decide better, all skills that you cannot do without in the digital age. It helps you connect with people on an emotional level, leveraging the power of great deep understanding to achieve unprecedented success. It contains everything that you need to know about harnessing the true potential of the human mind to come out on top in all walks of life.

By reading this book you get to:

• Understand the concept of using mental models to think critically and strategically.
• Understand what it takes to leverage better reasoning concepts to achieve all round success.
• Understand how to use deep learning to help you achieve your life goals.
• Understand how using mental models puts tremendous analytical ability at your disposal that lets you make optimal use of all the information that engulf you in the digital age.

Sure, there are a million articles and many books out there that make similar claims, but those are nothing more than just claims. Understanding how to use mental models to develop stellar thinking ability involves the study of the human mind, which anyone will tell you, is in the realm of the highest science. This book has referenced the latest scientific advances that are peer validated and accepted as relevant facts by the scientific community.

Reading this book will bring about an epiphany of your mind and transform your life. But only if you act now.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Phillip T. Erickson
• Release date: Sep 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393291251

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Mental Models For Critical And Strategic Thinking

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The General Thinking Concepts For Better Reasoning, Decision Making, Deep Analysis And Advanced Learning

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By Phillip T. Erickson

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: The Mental Model in Your Head Counts for a Lot

Chapter Two: Types of Mental Models

Chapter Three: Thinking Concepts for Better Reasoning

Helps you Adopt the Right Approach

Helps you Save Time

Helps You Understand and Appreciate Views Different From Yours

Helps You Communicate Better

Helps You Become a Better Decision Maker

Chapter 4: Think and Make Better Decisions

Chapter 5: Leverage Critical Thinking to Find Your True Calling

Chapter 6: Learning Great Decision Making

Chapter 7: Why Deep Analysis?

Chapter 8: Yes, Advanced Learning is For You

Mind Mapping

Speed Reading

Enhancing you Memory

Mnemonics

Chapter 9: A Better Thinking Person

Chapter 10: Great Thinkers of Our World

Chapter 11: Challenges of Thinking in the Digital Age

Conclusion

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Introduction

We all follow subconscious mental models of thinking that are an outcome of our assumptions derived from our belief systems, education and societal values. Since our interpretation of the world is greatly impacted by our mental model of thinking, it makes a lot of sense to understand what constitutes and influences our mental model of thinking.

It is our mental model of thinking that has a bearing on how we process the information received by us and act upon it. Any individual or an organized group of people would do well to understand mental models of thinking for that will give them a handle about the way people think and act in the way that they do.

You can imagine that people’s mental models of thinking deeply impact the way leaders and indeed organizations behave and act. This is important because not all mental models are the right ones for people or organizations to follow, in that they act as an impediment to progress rather than a catalyst.

Our decision making, as processed through our mental models of thinking, usually goes through several stages.  The first thing one does is to base our course of action upon our personally held beliefs. The next thing one has to deal with is the outside world and make sense of it by developing our own beliefs about it. This allows one to arrive at an understanding of the situation one is facing and take what we deem to be the appropriate action.

Mental models essentially is our way of making sense of the world that we inhabit. These are extremely important for they don’t just influence our thinking, but also how we interact with others and capitalize on opportunities that come our way.

Mental models help us simplify complex situations by prioritizing information, as per our need for it. A mental model is a blue print for action to make something work. Nobody can retain all the information one is exposed to. A mental model of thinking helps one organize complex inputs into smaller parts that can be better organized.

Like I mentioned a little earlier the quality of a mental model of thinking determines how useful it is. It cannot be that you have one standard mental model template for all the complex situations you are likely to encounter in life.

Therefore, the more mental models of thinking you possess the better equipped you are to achieve optimal outcomes in life.  When creating mental models of thinking one cannot overlook the fact that human beings are specialists and do not as a rule have very many mental models of thinking

A person with a technical background, for example, will base his or her mental model on very precise and practical ways of approaching things. A painter, on the other hand, will have a more abstract and imaginative way of looking at things. A marketing person would be very focused on timely achievement of targets.

If we are able to combine all of the above and other perspectives in our minds, our decision making ability would be that much more perceptive and impactful. Looking at things unidimensionally can never work very well for us, as it will typically lead to subpar decision making.

Having access to diverse and myriad sources of knowledge leads to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of situations leading to better decision making. One should, however, never ever imagine that just because you use a mental model of thinking that has proved to be effective in the past that you possess the magical ability to understand the reality of your situation exactly the way it is.

That is simply not possible, as mental model is just that, a model. It does not or cannot represent reality. The reality is out there. Your mental map of thinking can suggest possible ways of dealing with it, but not provide you a fool proof way of getting exactly the result you hope to achieve.

One has to also remember that a mental model is useful, only if it is based on ability and competence and not ego. If a general bases his mental map of thinking on the mythical military prowess of his troops and leads them to war with an obviously superior enemy, he is not really using the right mental model of thinking!

If you know exactly what your levels of competence can help you achieve, it will be possible for you to create a fine mental model of thinking. If not, it might get you into serious trouble.

Your mental model of thinking has to be premised on an understanding of the principal facts of a situation as differentiated from any assumptions that you