5 Critical Thinking Strategies to Sharpen Your Thinking
That’s why it’s important to understand futures thinking.
Futures thinking is your ability to recognize what will potentially happen in the future. How the future will unfold through observation, strategic foresight, and designing different scenarios. The end goal is to ensure that you’re not caught with your guard down.
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When you don’t understand something, deconstruct. Deconstruction creates knowledge. You work backward from the end to understand how something was done.
When you want to create something original, though, deconstruct and recombine. Arranging common things in a new way creates value.
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The framework for independent thinking will be to pause for a moment and consider the argument – the presented information. Then, to mentally distance yourself from the opinion of the people around you – including the common solutions to a problem.
Original ideas can’t emerge if you copy what was done before. You need to search for solutions that we
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The boss states that he wants to penetrate India. Everyone in the room just nodes in unison and moves the next item on the agenda. Everyone agrees with the statement of the boss because: a) he’s the boss (duh)
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Leadership is Language book
You invest money in fonds and in yourself – through mastering new skills – not because it’s super exciting. Surely you can spend your time better than reading books or watching boring videos on coding. You can for example have fun playing video games. But your ability to “see” the future tells you that, “Hey, it’s not healthy to waste my time on a
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Independent thinking strategy is having the courage to think differently from the group.
I’m saying having the courage because in social situations. We are pressured to agree with others. Pressured to fall for groupthink – one common critical thinking barrier.
This is especially true if we are speaking with someone higher in the hierarchy or someone
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This still makes me laugh at the irony. When we are kids, mothers regularly say if Johnny jumped off the #bridge, would you?
In business, we regularly look at our what our competitors to gauge a baseline for security. Well, company “A” is doing … so that should be sufficient for us.
Herd mentality and group think is crazy, yet as this article suggets, it is the norm.
Here’s how to do it. Ask:
• What are the core components?
• What can’t be removed?
• What can be removed?
• What can be added?
• What can be modified?