The Critical Thinker Series

Stay alert and avoid being tricked. Apply logic and analysis to your everyday life. Detect hidden assumptions, spot inconsistencies, and recognize dishonesty. The quality of our lives is determined by the quality of our thinking.  And the quality of our thinking is often determined by the quality questions we ask from ourselves. Critical thinking is the art of asking relevant, necessary, and meaningful questions to discover the objective truth behind words, events, and opinions in general.  Today we have more access to information than ever before. Information influences our world view and decisions often without us noticing it. Following wrong idols can lead us to bad decisions that lead to unhappiness and a dissatisfying life. When what's "right, beautiful, successful, and cool" gets dictated around us we often forget to think for ourselves and make our own choices. Thus we make bad decisions based on the opinion of others – not even our own.  Who should make your life choices for you? You've put your own thoughts, wishes, and opinions off for too long. It's time for that to change. Elements of Critical Thinking provides you with unique insights into the nature of thinking and reasoning - why are we often so wrong, why we are so inclined to avoid the responsibility of thinking for ourselves, and how can we develop solid, objective patterns of thought.  This book is a guide for the notoriously "trusting," "overwhelmed," and "gullible". It is a deep psychological dive into what makes us stop thinking for ourselves, and how to systematically combat those compulsions. It's a book that stands apart from others because of the plethora of real-life examples, studies, and solutions. If you wish to add to your critical thinking toolkit, you'll find the step-by-step answer here.   Elements of Critical Thinking lays out:  - The function of critical thinking and its main obstacles. - The varied elements of critical reasoning.  - Important abilities and traits of critical thinkers.  - The vocabulary of critical analysis,  - The models essential to critical thinking. The most secure way of making good decisions is to have well-practiced and predictable strategies that you can use when you are faced with a problem that requires deeper analysis.  This book will provide you with helpful exercises and tips to help you can find better solutions to your problems.  - Learn the essential critical thinking skills when reading, writing, and speaking;  - Be on your guard for hidden cognitive traps when shopping and interacting with advertisers.  – Discover the tools and strategies can help you become a more disciplined thinker, developing your analytical, reasoning, and reflective thinking skills.   Be ready to learn. Be ready to argue intellectually.  - Learn to read between the lines and assess the validity of statements. - Identify and separate logical and illogical reasoning.  - Learn how to construct a fair, well-reasoned argument with the help of formal and informal logic.  As a physicist and computer scientist, I was always looking for logical, well-founded answers to questions. Yet, I needed to stay open to question my knowledge fairly often, revise my beliefs held, and unlearn some. In this book, I share the best of the best critical thinkers – intertwined with my own – to help you develop this essential skill that the contemporary job market so keenly demands. I will help you create thinking patterns that lead to a critical and more objective understanding of the world.

Do you want to ask smart questions like Socrates, be an out-of-the-box thinker like John Stuart Mill, and rational like Descartes?  These people have at least one thing in common; they were great critical thinkers of their time and their shared wisdom lived through the centuries.  Lessons From Critical Thinkers provides intellectual power to engage with and participate in effective critical thoughts, arguments, debates, reading, and reflection drawn from methods in the history of philosophical cognitive development. •Learn to think slowly and deliberately before making a decision •Get ready to question opinions and even facts  •Learn to gather information before jumping to conclusions •Accept and expect the biased and flawed nature of human cognition  Lessons From Critical Thinkers gives you a thorough presentation of the ideas and principles of critical thinking practiced by the greatest minds in history. Learn about the most important critical thinking methods to make better decisions in your personal life, career, and friendships.   Equip yourself with the essential methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of ideas and everyday situations. •Discover critical thinking by familiarizing with concepts from other disciplines, like philosophy, cognitive biases and errors, race and gender from sociology and political science, and symbols from rhetoric. •Apply critical thinking and reasoning skills to your day to day problems •Find the most rewarding options in any opportunity. Lessons From Critical Thinkers is a helpful book for readers of any age and background who want to improve their critical thinking skills by learning from the greatest thinkers of all time. Learn to filter out irrelevant information efficiently and prioritize your resources to get the best results. Enhance your communication skills, reasoning, and logic.    Improve your critical, logical, observational, and rational thinking skills with the timeless principles presented in this book.

Understand your brain for wisdom, stability, peace, and clarity. Improve your critical and rational thinking skills by understanding the science of your brain.  Being irrational and making snap judgments is natural. But you can prevent both if you know what cognitive patterns to look for. Start thinking effectively from the root - neuroscience and how it impacts your critical analysis and thinking.  Critical thinking skills improve your decision-making muscle, speed up your deductive thinking skills, and improve your judgment.  In Neuroscience and Critical Thinking, you'll find widely usable and situation-specific advice on how to view about your daily life, business, friendships, opinions, and even social media in a critical fashion.   Easily spot errors in reasoning.  •Think slowly and deliberately before making a snap judgment or decision •Question assumptions and opinions (including your own)  •How to gather information before jumping to conclusions •Accept and expect that human nature is ultimately biased and prone to make cognitive errors  Learn about the most important critical thinking principles as well as shortcuts to make better decisions.   •Learn the main principles of critical thinking. •Solve underlying issues, not mere symptoms •Find the most rewarding aspects of any opportunity •Detect the thinking errors of larger groups or individuals   Ask powerful questions to effectively self-assess.  Level up your critical thinking skills and save time, filter out irrelevant information efficiently, and prioritize your resources to get the best results. Identify better problem-solving approaches rather than relying on standard methods that don't suit your case. Enhance your communication skills, reasoning, and logic.    Get to know your brain to have better solution to problems, solve difficult tasks easier, and understand the world better.

Would you like to instantly catch people's thoughts, emotions, motivations, and intentions through mere observation? If yes, you've come to the right place!  10-Minute Social Psychology is a unique book that takes a deeper look into social conflicts: what causes them, what keeps them alive, and most importantly—what you can do about them. The book presents how social awareness is built and takes you step by step through its various mindset shifts and actionable observations. Using the best studies and lessons of social neuroscience and social psychology, this book helps you understand how others influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Establishing connection between raw biological and social cognition, the neuroscientific method can have a tremendous impact on our behavior. Improve your: - decision-making; - critical thinking and reasoning;  - physical and mental well-being; and your - self-understanding.  10-Minute Social Psychology addresses social concerns such as discrimination, in- and out-group dynamics, competition vs. cooperation, and social acceptability and likability, using neuroscience and social psychology-backed data, giving guidelines and critical-thinking practices to diminish these concerns.   Learn to predict and change others' behavior, as well as your own. - How can our understanding of social behavior be expanded upon and improved? - How do social processes impact the human brain?  - Which brain areas implement social behavior? Can we influence them?   Become more likable by becoming more empathetic.  -Tame the social categorization muscle in dimensions like gender, race, or age. - What is the cost of social stress?  - How do we become better at cooperation and competition? - How do we become less susceptible to social influence?  Humans are social creatures—our health and well-being partially depends on others. 10-Minute Social Psychology helps you to understand the critical function of how we make sense of and connect with people.

Identify false information. Avoid getting tricked. Be quick-witted and insightful. Would you like to ask the right questions, come up with strong arguments, detect biases and irrational or illogical reasoning? But you don't know where to start learning these?   The Art of Thinking Critically will help you with that! Using the brightest ideas and best practices of some of the greatest thinkers, you can become a self-thought critical thinker who doesn't accept things at face value. With the help of guided exercises, you will learn how to do your own research, think about information for yourself, and draw conclusions that stand true to you.   Avoid being manipulated.   Being surrounded by inaccurate and often misleading information can feel overwhelming. Become more astute and catch inconsistencies in others' reasoning, don't be misled.   Learn to question, fact-check, and correct people without sounding offensive. - How to self-educate to think more critically. - Equip yourself with good questions and ideas on how to think for yourself.  - Break out of herd mentality. - Get a structure on how to implement critical thinking practices in your life.   Human beings are generally curious and wish to understand the world better. But many of us didn't have the luck to learn effective questioning techniques as children. We were not encouraged to form opinions and were rather scolded for being too curious. So we didn't learn how to properly question and assess the information we hear, read, and how to think for ourselves. But we can absolutely change that! And educate our children to be better equipped with critical thinking skills.   Make better decisions. Don't be gullible.

Science-backed directives to think critically, make smarter choices, and become a seasoned fact-checker. You've been manipulated before by advertising tricks. You've overlooked important details and made mistakes in your thinking. You haven't been fast enough to detect opportunities and others snatched them from you. We've all been in these scenarios. But we don't have to stay there.    Transform your thinking to solve complex problems, overcome obstacles, discover opportunities, and think more clearly and accurately.  How to Think Critically is not your average "change your thoughts change your life" book. It is a step-by-step manual that presents the core principles of critical thinking and gives practical guidance on how to re-program yourself for deeper insights and a more conscious living. Here you will find research-proven, actionable tools that will help you to apply critical thinking practices immediately until they become a habit.   Improve your understanding and gain mental clarity. Albert Rutherford is an internationally bestselling author whose writing derives from various sources, such as research, coaching, academic and real-life experience.   Ask better questions to find more accurate answers and draw more profound insights. •The essential steps in developing critical thinking skills. •What deep thinking and analysis really look like. •How to debunk cognitive shortcuts, manipulations, and biases.   Evidence-based practices for optimal decision-making. •How to avoid marketing manipulations and make optimal decisions. •How to ask questions that are free of subconscious suggestions. •Tips for creative thinking – reasoning by analogy.   Start developing better critical thinking skills today by reading How to Think Critically! This is the sixth book in the "The Critical Thinker" series as listed below: Elements of Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide to Effective Decision Making, Deep Analysis, Intelligent Reasoning, and Independent Thinking Lessons From Critical Thinkers: Methods for Clear Thinking and Analysis in Everyday Situations from the Greatest Thinkers in History Neuroscience and Critical Thinking: Understand the Hidden Pathways of Your Thought Patterns- Improve Your Memory, Make Rational Decisions, Tune Down Emotional Reactions, and Set Realistic Expectations 10-Minute Social Psychology: The Critical Thinker's Guide to Social Behavior, Motivation, and Influence To Make Rational and Effective Decisions The Art of Thinking Critically: Ask Great Questions, Spot Illogical Reasoning, and Make Sharp Arguments