Course curriculum

    1. Why does thinking matter?

    2. Thinking with others

    3. Cultivating intellectual humility

    4. Taking your time

    5. Making distinctions

    6. Making more distinctions

    7. Only the best argument

    8. Assessing your sources

    9. Using generalizations carefully

    10. Considering other worlds

    11. Not defining your terms

    12. Resisting the strawman

    13. Infamous ad hominem

    14. Question-begging

    15. Two key questions

    16. What's up with truth?

    17. When thinking isn't the right tool

    18. Where to go from here

    1. Welcome to critical thinking

    2. The importance of critical thinking

    3. Distinguish causes vs. consequences

    4. Break big problems into small ones

    5. Define the problem statement

    6. Understand the real question

    7. Ask focusing questions

    8. Examine past efforts

    9. Use new lenses to think critically

    10. How to find root causes

    11. Challenge how the business operates

    12. Use the five whys of critical thinking

    13. Answer the seven so-whats?

    14. Use the 80/20 rule to think critically

    15. How to successfully conduct analysis

    16. Consider the implications of answers

    17. Teach others how to think critically

    18. Common pitfalls when solving problems

    19. Apply critical thinking every day

    1. Improve your problem-solving skills

    2. Know yourself

    3. Staying focused

    4. Asking questions

    5. Analyzing information

    6. Important parameters

    7. Simple problem-solving models

    8. Complex problem-solving methods

    9. Understanding the problem

    10. Determine your criteria

    11. Find solutions

    12. Limit decisions and final choice

    13. Implementing your solution

    14. Avoiding logical fallacies

    15. Avoiding data manipulation

    16. Avoiding small group pitfalls

    17. Ready to practice

    1. Using smart questions to get better answers

    2. Why most decisions fail

    3. The power of divergent thinking

    4. From first principles to questioning outdated assumptions

    5. Why breakthroughs arrive from outside your industry

    6. Turn tactical questions into strategical questions

    7. What if you did the reverse?

    8. How to use questions to shift perspective

    9. To find what's right, prove yourself wrong

    10. Ask probing questions to generate better answers

    11. Decision premortem to uncover problems before they happen

    12. The one question most people miss in decision-making

    1. Six biases of decision-making

    2. The base rate bias

    3. The confirmation bias

    4. The availability bias

    5. The hindsight bias

    6. The overconfidence bias

    7. The sunk cost bias

    8. Identifying bias is the first step in avoiding it

    1. The secret to good decisions

    2. Being judgmental versus having good judgment

    3. The good judgment formula

    4. Improving your judgment about people

    5. Improving your judgment in challenging situations

    6. Using good judgment to make your case

    7. How to judge the future

    8. Becoming more self-aware

    9. Bonus take-home tip

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  • 92 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content

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