دانلود کتاب 30 days to better thinking and better living through critical thinking : a guide for improving every aspect of your life

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Content: Introduction. Improve your thinking, improve your life --
Can your thinking be your problem? --
A how-to-list for dysfunctional living --
Take your thinking seriously --
No intellectual pain, no intellectual gain --
The concepts, principles, and tools of critical thinking --
Why critical thinking? --
The figuring mind --
Analyze your thinking (focusing on the elements of reasoning) --
Assess your thinking (Using reasonable standards) --
Systematically apply intellectual standards to the elements of reasoning to develop intellectual traits --
Pursue the constellation of intellectual traits --
Understand the mind's three distinctive functions --
Recognize thinking as the key to feelings and desires --
Distinguish rational from egocentric and sociocentric motives--
Understand egocentric thinking as a problem --
Understand sociocentric thinking a s a problem --
A substantive approach to critical thinking --
The thirty-day plan --
Tips for internalizing each idea --
Planning and logging your progress --
Discover your ignorance --
Strive to be a person of integrity: beware of your own hypocrisy --
Empathize with others --
Deliberately target your purposes --
Be a conformist: think for yourself --
Clarify your thinking --
Be relevant: stick to the point --
Be reasonable --
Ask deep questions --
Distinguish questions of fact, preference and judgment --
Think through implications --
Distinguish information from inferences --
Don't be fooled by the words people use: look underneath words to --
Unspoken realities --
When you think you have arrived as a critical thinker, think again --
Be fair, not selfish --
Get control of your emotions --
Take control of your desires --
Don't dominate others
don't be a top-dog --
Don't be submissive: don't be an underdog --
Don't be brainwashed by the news media --
Carefully choose the ideas you take in from television, ads, movies and the --
Internet --
Don't be bamboozled by politicians --
Don't be a blamer --
Don't be righteous: show mercy --
Vow to spend no time worrying --
Be a citizen of the world --
Do something, anything, to help make the world better --
See your development occurring in stages --
Educate yourself --
Figure out where to go from here --
Reading backwards --
Recommended readings to augment the strategies.