Think For Yourself
Amen. Rational, logical thought is a sacred “obligation” and practice. We should each practice it. We should help each other with it. It should be …
Education
MLK Was Right on Education
As Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote: Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s …
Bad School Management/Administration: An Example
As this post on Quora illustrates, sometimes good teachers are eliminated by bad managers/administrators. Such managers/administrators should be rooted out, disciplined, and, if necessary, fired …
How To Explain
We go to a training session or meet with a boss, but no one comes out understanding what they were attempting to explain. Why is …
Three Essential Skills of Root-cause Analysis and Problem-solving
To improve at root-cause analysis and problem solving, we need to improve our reasoning skills, Q&A skills, and curiosity. They are essential. Questioning Asking and …
A Critical Thinking Skill: Thinking in Principles
To think better, in life and at work, we should practice identifying basic ideas in things we read or hear. We often read something, but …
A Tool To Control Bad Management and Encourage Good
We’ve all had a bad manager(s), or know someone who has. It’s an unfortunate ancient human tradition, one most of us wish was gone or …
A Critical-Thinking Tool To Help Us Make Good Decisions and Stay True In All Our Thinking
In making good decisions at work and at home, in judging people at work and at home, in learning abstract ideas, we need a process. …
Management of Self and Others
To manage well, we should follow principles of Extreme Ownership (re book by Willink and Babin) and The Five Whys (root cause analysis), and be …