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How Often Do You Live in Auto-Pilot?
When we are in familiar settings, the brain often becomes comfortable and can shift into mental auto-pilot. While this energy saving technique is often helpful, we should be careful to realize that during this time we are not thinking critically. Actually, we aren’t thinking at all. So often we fail to improve our standard processes [...]
The Trick Interview Question
Trick interview questions say more about the interviewer than it does about the candidate’s answer, but I found this Dilbert comic worth sharing!
The Latest News in Problem Solving, Decision Making, and Critical Thinking
Every day, my colleagues and I post the newest and most relevant articles in the world of critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, and creativity through our various social media accounts. Because we know you’re busy and may not be connected to all of us through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, we are going to start a new [...]
Thinking Differently About Boarding a Plane
If there’s a better way to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then there must be a better way arrange the boarding process for airplanes. I travel often and the only thing I consistently see in the boarding process of various airlines is inconsistency. Some board from the back of the plane, and some [...]
Who Needs a TomTom That Twitters?
Guest post from Heather Ishikawa (co-author of Now You’re Thinking!) _____________________________________________________________________ Did you know that the new TomTom’s Go Live GPS device will have Twitter functionality? When I heard this, I immediately jumped to conclusions about how I could use this functionality: Inform all friends that I don’t know where I’m going Instant tweets for [...]
Beware of Numbers; They’re Liars | Critical Thinking
Watching the news is a great mental exercise in critical thinking. For example, watch any cable news station and notice how often studies with statistics are reported. That sounds like a good thing, right? We would much rather hear that the news being shared is backed up by scientific studies, surveys, and analysis rather than [...]
Stephen Colbert on Belief Systems and Skeptics
Stephen Colbert interviews author Michael Shermer about his new book “The Believing Brain.” There are some interesting critical thinking tid-bits in this humorous interview. What do you think about Shermer’s take on the brain’s desire to believe? The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Michael Shermer www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor [...]
Are You Listening to the Real Problem or Busy Putting Out Fires?
Guest post from Heather Ishikawa, co-author of Now You’re Thinking! I was catching up on my reading this weekend and came across an interesting article, The CEO of Duke Energy on Learning to Work with Green activists in the Harvard Business Review. http://hbr.org/product/the-ceo-of-duke-energy-on-learning-to-work-with-gr/an/R1105A-HCB-ENG. The article describes the process that James Rogers implemented when he took [...]
Practical Wisdom and the Importance of Context
What is a wise person? Is she someone who scores in the 99th percentile on the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal? Is he a member of Mensa? Is she a hero whose quick thinking saved a life? Is he a listener? Is she a leader? Barry Schwartz argues that a wise person is more than scores [...]
Is Critical Thinking Dead?
Some days I genuinely fear for the human race. No, it’s not because the “Day of Rapture” will supposedly begin this Saturday. It’s because I encounter things that show that we (as a human race) aren’t thinking. Let me give you a few examples: Each time one of these bizarre cautionary warnings are added to [...]