Recommended Readings to Augment the Strategies

The following readings come from three sources: Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life, volumes of the Thinker’s Guide Library, and the glossary in the back of this book. The book and Thinker’s Guide Library (which includes an expanded glossary) can be found at the Foundation for Critical Thinking website at www.criticalthinking.org.

• Day One, “Discover Your Ignorance”: See intellectual humility in the index of Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life. See also intellectual humility in the glossary.

• Day Two, “Strive to Be a Person of Integrity: Beware of Your Own Hypocrisy”: See intellectual integrity in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and in the glossary.

• Day Three, “Empathize with Others”: See intellectual empathy in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and in the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: Ethical Reasoning.

• Day Four, “Deliberately Target Your Purposes”: See purpose in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: Analytic Thinking.

• Day Five, “Don’t Be a Conformist: Think for Yourself”: See intellectual autonomy in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also sociocentricity in both references.

• Day Six, “Clarify Your Thinking”: See clarify/clarity in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the intellectual standards chapter in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life.

• Day Seven, “Be Relevant: Stick to the Point”: See relevance in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the intellectual standards chapter in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life.

• Day Eight, “Be Reasonable”: See reasonability in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Intellectual Standards.

• Day Nine, “Ask Deep Questions”: See questions in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Asking Essential Questions.

• Day Ten, “Distinguish Among Questions of Fact, Preference, and Judgment”: See the Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life chapter on questions.

• Day Eleven, “Think Through Implications”: See implications in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking.

• Day Twelve, “Distinguish Inferences from Assumptions”: See information and inferences in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary.

• Day Thirteen, “Don’t Be Fooled by the Words People Use: Look Underneath Words to Unspoken Realities”: See concepts in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary.

• Day Fourteen, “When You Think You Have Arrived as a Critical Thinker, Think Again”: See the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind. See also egocentricity and the stages of critical thinking development in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary.

• Day Fifteen, “Be Fair, Not Selfish”: See fairmindedness in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to The Human Mind.

• Day Sixteen, “Get Control of Your Emotions”: See feelings and emotions in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind.

• Day Seventeen, “Take Control of Your Desires”: See desires in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind.

• Day Eighteen, “Don’t Dominate Others: Don’t Be a Top Dog”: See egocentric domination in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind.

• Day Nineteen, “Don’t Be Submissive: Don’t Be an Underdog”: See egocentric submission in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Miniature Guide to the Human Mind.

• Day Twenty, “Don’t Be Brainwashed by the News Media”: See media bias in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda.

• Day Twenty-One, “Carefully Choose the Ideas You Take in from Television, Ads, Movies, and the Internet”: See media bias in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda.

• Day Twenty-Two, “Don’t Be Bamboozled by Politicians”: See the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning.

• Day Twenty-Three, “Don’t Be a Blamer”: See the chapter on egocentricity in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life.

• Day Twenty-Four, “Don’t Be Righteous: Show Mercy”: See the chapter on egocentricity in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life. See also the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning.

• Day Twenty-Five, “Vow to Spend No Time Worrying”: See the chapter on egocentricity in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life.

• Day Twenty-Six, “Be a Citizen of the World”: See intellectual virtues in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary.

• Day Twenty-Seven, “Do Something, Anything, to Help Make the World Better”: See the Thinker’s Guide Library: The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning.

• Day Twenty-Eight, “See Your Development Occurring in Stages”: See stages of critical thinking development in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and the glossary.

• Day Twenty-Nine, “Educate Yourself”: Visit www.criticalthinking.org for resources.

• Day Thirty, “Figure Out Where to Go from Here”: Work through the chapters and Test the Idea activities in Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life.