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July 2010
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The Web is Like a Garage Sale: Learn to Wade Through the Junk
Personally, I hate garage sales. Nothing about digging through someone else’s used stuff appeals to me at all. I also hate how the person selling you the “stuff” tries to convince you how great the item is. If it is so great, why don’t you keep it? Garage sale enthusiasts will tell you, though, that [...]
Carolyn Kepcher Inspired Me to Critically Think
I’m currently in Chicago attending one of Pearson’s national meetings. I was fortunate enough to attend a talk Carolyn Kepcher gave yesterday. Carolyn spoke about work-life “balance,” women in business and, of course, what it was like to work for Donald Trump & be on The Apprentice. After the session I asked her what her [...]
Problem Solving: It’s All About Control
At Pearson’s Critical Thinking Boot Camp last month, I learned a valuable lesson for problem solving and decision making. When trying to solve a current problem or anticipating a future issue, the first thing you should assess is what factors you can and cannot control. We often waste time trying to figure out how to [...]
The Value of Asking Questions
One thing I’ve learned from being a remote employee is to never take your colleagues for granted. It’s a great feeling to get together and catch up. Even better is that that the amount of useful information they share! It’s always great to share things we’re hearing about critical thinking but to do it in [...]
Five Critical Thinkers on Television
Some people say television rots your brain, but I believe some shows actually model critical thinking for it’s viewers. Some shows demonstrate the process of elimination while others walk viewers through discussions about fact versus opinion. Here are a few examples of tv show characters that model critical thinking skills. 1) House- Ever the skeptic, [...]
Political Ads, Infomercials and Other Things That Discourage Critical Thinking
Thank goodness for the invention of the DVR. What did we do before we had the ability to tape and easily fast forward through commercials? Each time I watch a political ad, commercial, or infomercial I wonder how many brain cells I lost. I realize that scientifically that watching commercials does not create a loss [...]
3 Signs a Meeting is Getting Emotional & Solutions
Last week I posted about how emotions affect decision making and can get in the way of critically thinking. In a corporate setting, it may be difficult to know when emotions are running high enough that you should intervene. So here are 3 warning signs a meeting is getting emotional. People begin to get animated. [...]
Critical Thinking, Skeptics, Psychics, and Aliens
I have found that many people who would be called “skeptics” by the general public label themselves critical thinkers. What do you think? Is there a difference between a skeptic and a critical thinker? Or is critical thinking the method by which skeptics disprove things like ghosts, psychics, astrology, alien encounters, religious beliefs, etc? Listen [...]
Critically Think, for Your Boss’s Sake!
If you watch Lie To Me, this may jog your memory. If not- the basic premises is that you can read people’s faces & body language to tell the truth and best understand a situation. I was just watching the episode, Teacher and Pupils, when this scene happened: Cal & Gillian (the main characters) walk [...]
Newsflash: I’m a Sucker
This weekend my fiancé revealed my deep dark secret- I’m a sucker. I pride myself on being logical and a good critical thinker. I carefully weigh facts when making a decision and invite unique solutions when solving a problem. But there is one clear area in my life where I tend to ignore my own critical thinking [...]