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Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st hundred years. With this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his brand of hopeful skepticism, Man Harrison shows in a detailed fashion how to evaluate bad ideas, unfounded statements, and bogus information to drill right down to the most salient facts. By explaining how the human brain works and outing its most irrational operations, this book provides the thinking tools that may help you make better decisions, ask the right questions (at the right time), know what to consider when assessing information, and know how your own brain subconsciously clouds your judgment. Think you're too best if you be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research demonstrating how easily even wise and well-educated people can be misled. We all have problems with cognitive biases, embellished thoughts, and the tendency to kowtow to authority characters or be duped by dubious "truths" packaged in appealing reports. So when primates we are naturally status seekers, so we are prone to irrational beliefs that seem to enhance our senses of belonging and ranking. Emotional impulses and stress also all too often lead us into traps of misperception and bad judgment. Understanding what science has uncovered about the mind enables you to better equipped to cope with its built-in pitfalls. Good Pondering - the book and the practice - makes clear that with knowledge and the right thinking skills, anyone may lead a safer, wiser, better, and fruitful life.
