Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide To Critical Thinking Skills (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Terrific series of lectures on the mind. This content takes primarily a psychological / philosophical approach to the study of the brain. Various studies and anecdotes are provided throughout the lectures to make them entertaining, relevant, and also memorable. In typically TTC fashion, the quality and caliber of the lectures are top notch, especially for subjects I do not consider myself an expert in, such as this. Although many of the notions, studies, etc. were known to me before, it was still quite entertaining to have them conveyed by Novella. We cannot trust what we remember and our beliefs have potentially little or no relationship to reality. Beliefs are nothing more than a narrative, a story, that we tell ourselves stitched together from faulty information and flawed logic, modified by our cognitive biases and emotional desires. This essential realization distinguishes critical thinkers.Without a doubt one of the best books on thinking that I have encountered. If you are interested in critical thinking and how your mind works, read (or listen) to this book!It is part of “The Great Courses” catalog, so it is presented as a series of lectures.It may be a bit dry, but is so wonderfully interesting and compelling, and so very applicable to our society and culture.Read this, you will be a better more enlightened thinker!
What do You think about Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide To Critical Thinking Skills (2012)?
So informative! So valuable! We should be teaching critical thinking in school.
—Cupcake
One of the most important and neccessary lecture series I've ever read.
—doracelaya
Intellectually stimulating and thought provoking.
—Moniqueyz
Á örugglega eftir að hlusta fljótlega aftur.
—Shawna1496
This is a good overview of critical thinking.
—Shelby
