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by Dr. Richard Paul, Dr. Linda Elder
30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living Through Critical Thinking: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, Revised and Expanded
Title Page
Copyright Page
More on What People Say About the 30 Days Book...
Dedication Page
Contents
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 Thoughts
Understand Egocentric Thinking as a Problem
Distinguish Egocentric Domination from Egocentric Submission
Understand Sociocentric Thinking as a Problem
A Substantive Approach to Critical Thinking Targets
The Thirty-Day Plan
Tips for Internalizing Each Idea
Planning and Logging Your Progress
Day One. Discover Your Ignorance
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for developing intellectual humility
Questions you might ask to identify weaknesses in your thinking
Day Two. Strive to Be a Person of Integrity: Beware of Your Own Hypocrisy
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for reducing hypocrisy in yourself
Strategies for noticing hypocrisy in others
Day Three. Empathize with Others
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for empathizing with others
Day Four. Deliberately Target Your Purposes
Be on the lookout for...
Questions you can ask to target purpose
Strategies for targeting purposes
Day Five. Don’t Be a Conformist: Think for Yourself
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for becoming an independent thinker
Day Six. Clarify Your Thinking
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for clarifying your thinking
Day Seven. Be Relevant: Stick to the Point
Be on the lookout for...
Questions you can ask to make sure your thinking is focused on what is relevant
Day Eight. Be Reasonable
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for becoming more reasonable
Be on the lookout for...
Day Nine. Ask Deep Questions
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for formulating more powerful questions
Questions you can ask to discipline your thinking
Day Ten. Distinguish Among Questions of Fact, Preference, and Judgment
Questions of Procedure (Established or One-System)
Questions of Preference (No System)
Questions of Judgment (Conflicting Systems)
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for internalizing and using the three types of questions
Day Eleven. Think Through Implications
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for thinking through implications
Questions you should ask to target implications
Day Twelve. Distinguish Inferences from Assumptions
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for taking command of your inferences and assumptions
Day Thirteen. Don’t Be Fooled by the Words People Use: Look Underneath Words to Unspoken Realities
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for choosing words more carefully
Day Fourteen. When You Think You Have Arrived as a Critical Thinker, Think Again
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for continuing to develop as a critical thinker
Day Fifteen. Be Fair, Not Selfish
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for developing as a fairminded thinker
Questions you can ask to foster fairness in your thinking
Day Sixteen. Get Control of Your Emotions
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for taking command of your emotional life
Day Seventeen. Take Control of Your Desires
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for controlling your desires
Day Eighteen. Don’t Dominate Others: Don’t Be a Top Dog
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for becoming less dominating
Day Nineteen. Don’t Be Submissive; Don’t Be an Underdog
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for avoiding irrational submission
Day Twenty. Don’t Be Brainwashed by the News Media
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for seeing through the news media
Day Twenty-One. Carefully Choose the Ideas You Take in from Television, Ads, Movies, and the Internet
Carefully observe...
Strategies for critiquing television shows, ads, movies, and Internet resources
Day Twenty-Two. Don’t Be Bamboozled by Politicians
As you go through your day...
Strategies for seeing through politicians
Day Twenty-Three. Don’t Be a Blamer
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for taking charge of who you are
Day Twenty-Four. Don’t Be Righteous: Show Mercy
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for showing compassion and mercy
Day Twenty-Five. Vow to Spend No Time Worrying
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for relinquishing the worrying habit
Day Twenty-Six. Be a Citizen of the World
It is becoming increasingly clear...
Strategies for becoming a citizen of the world
Day Twenty-Seven. Do Something, Anything, to Help Make the World Better
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for contributing to a more just world
Day Twenty-Eight. See Your Development Occurring in Stages
Be on the lookout for...
Strategies for moving through the stages
Day Twenty-Nine. Educate Yourself
Place the cultivation of your mind...
Strategies for self-education
Day Thirty. Figure Out Where to Go from Here
Focus your energy today on...
Strategies for taking the next steps toward development
Reading Backwards
Recommended Readings to Augment the Strategies
Appendix. Glossary of Terms
References
Index
About the Authors
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