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Gain invaluable critical thinking skills for problem solving and decision making. Plus, gain problem solving skills

What you will learn

Improve your logic and learn logical fallacies

Learn methods of inference like inductive reasoning and ampliative reasoning

Improve your critical thinking and learn to ask better questions of information you are presented

Improve your career and every-day quality of life by approaching everything more intelligently

Description

Learn to think better: learn critical thinking, logic, and how to examine information that is presented to you. After you synthesize all the information and put it through a good examination, you’ll be more confidently and accurately able to classify certain information as true and false.

Once you have reliable information through critical thinking, you will then be able to use that information for your problem solving for life and career.

LOGICAL FALLACIES WITH REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS

Most philosophy and critical-thinking classes online and at universities are too theoretical, and that makes them boring. But in this course, every logical fallacy we’ll encounter will have real-life applications and examples to help you make the course applicable to your life.

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Many problem solving courses and strategies focus on few robotic steps to solve a problem. But they miss the bigger picture. Real people are the ones solving the problems so we must also include human elements that go into problem solving. Those human elements include your confidence, mental health, and interest in the problem.

All those parts of problem solving are as important as the logical parts of problem solving, and when they are combined, your problem solving skills rise to a new level.

IMPROVE YOUR DECISION MAKING

When you are better equipped to examine information you are presented, you will be better able to understand which information is accurate and which information in misleading. Having more accurate information to deal with will immediately improve your decision making.

Invest in your future! Enroll today.

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Content

Introduction and welcome

Introduction and welcome

Problem solving

Comprehensive approach to problem solving

Critical thinking

What is critical thinking

Logic and logical fallacies

Introduction to this section on logic and logical fallacies, and reasoning
The Socratic Method of the world
Inductive and deductive reasoning
Ampliative reasoning
Ad Hominem
How to treat others with opposing point of view
Surrounding yourself with similars
The twisted argument
Irrelevant argument
Argument from lack of knowledge
Case studies can be misleading
Statistics vs. case studies
Blindly trusting old assumptions
Correlation does not imply causation
Wishful thinking that feels good, but isn’t backed by sound reasoning
Being uncomfortable with having negative thoughts and ideas
Slippery slope fallacy and dealing with the anxiety it causes
Non-confrontation and giving into bullies and threat of anger

Creativity to help your problem solving

Creative problem solving – section introduction
How to be more creative
Another way of looking at creativity & the path to breakthroughs
Nine dot puzzle exercise and challenge to think creatively
Nine dot puzzle answer
Exercise: Answer the same question in many ways
Exercise: What can you do with a random item?
Brain hack to come up with creative solutions

Decision-making

Introduction to decision-making
Covey’s time management matrix from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Biology of decision-making, moods, and impulsiveness

Building confidence for problem-solving

Confidence for problem solving – section introduction
Immediately change confidence with body language – in seconds
Listen to internal conversations: Are you boosting or lowering your confidence?
Fear of failure or criticism and how it impacts your confidence
Fear and anger, how our brain works, and how it impacts confidence
Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers example of how ability creates confidence
Visualizations to boost performance and confidence
From Tony Robbins: 4 ingredients to achievement and eventual confidence

Mindfulness so you know what problems are right for you to solve

All productivity starts with mindfulness
How to start practicing basic mindfulness today
How our changing technology and social environments effect our self awareness
Defense mechanism of displacing blame vs. mindfulness and self-awareness
Two mindfulness exercises

Maintaining a strong focus and getting rid of distractions

Section introduction on why eliminating distractions is so important to focus
Eliminating interruptions when someone wants to chat
Learning to say NOOOOOO is productive

Additional thoughts

Why we live in such a politically polarized age
Live example of unbiased attempt at critical thinking about the news
My reaction to evaluating the news

Conclusion

Thank you for taking the course!