Sunday, July 13, 2014

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking - Linda Elder, Richard Paul

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thinking.


Critical Thinking is too important to leave by chance.

You must observes what causes problems.

Bad thinking consists of:
unclear, muddled, confused
focus on trivial ideas
notice of contradictions
jump to conclusions
lose track of goals
irrelevant questions
vague questions
unrealistic
unjustified assumptions
miss key ideas
irrelevant ideas
illogically
egocentric
too simplistic
too superficial
lack of insight
narrow perspective

Critical Thinking Process

The Goal/Definition

Process: 
Raises questions
Gathers and assess information
Well reasoned conclusion/solution
Clarity
Precision
Relevance
Accuracy
Depth
Breadth
Logic
Fairness


What is the fundamental purpose
What is my perspective
What assumptions
What information do I need
What is my fundamental inference
What is the most basic question
What am I trying to answer
What are the complexities
What are the significances
What is the meaning
What is the level of detail
How can it not be self serving
Can you give more details
Can you be more exact
What is the breath?
Can it have multiple views

Egocentric thinking - Selfish gains

Socio-Centric Thinking along with Rational Thinking
Validate groups goals and thinking and consider the rights and needs of the group


Ask Deep Questions
What is the multi cultured world view
Clarity concepts
Confidence in reasons

Develop:
Intellectual Courage
Intellectual Civility - taking others seriously, equal and granting respect and full attention, not a matter of courtesy but of politeness. The opposite is intellectual rudeness. 
Intellectual arrogance - natural egocentric human tendency to believe more than we actually know. That our thinking is rarely wrong.
Intellectual autonomy - having independent, rational control of one's beliefs, values, assumptions and inferences. Commitment to analyzing and evaluating beliefs on the basis of reason and evidence. 
Intellectual courage - willingness to face negative reaction.
Intellectual curiosity - desire to deeply understand inquisite 
Intellectual discipline - Trait of intellectual standards, rigor, carefulness, thoroughness, and conscious control.
Intellectual empathy - put oneself in place of others.
Intellectual engagement - Engaging the intellect of others.
Intellectual integrity - hold oneself to same rigorous standards
Intellectual perseverance - the pursuit of insight despite difficulties
Intellectual responsible - sense of obligation to fulfill one's duties
Intellectual sense of justice - sympathetic to the viewpoints of others. 
Irrational emotions - senseless, contrarty to logic, absurd, irrational beliefs, irrational responses. Egocentricity leads to behave in unproductive and unreasonable ways.  



Public Speaking


Public Speaking - Dale Carnegie

Developing Courage, Poise, Self Confidence
Persistent Desire
Know thoroughly what you are talking about
Act Confident
Practice with a small live audience
Develop a process of preparing for your talk
Speak with authority, humor, and humility
Voice Lessons
Acting Lessons
Dance Lessons
Yoga Classes
Breathing Classes

Speech Content:
State your facts
Argue from them
Appeal for action
Show them something is wrong
Show them how to remedy it
Ask for cooperation
Educate people with the merits of proposition
Play with your notes taking
Accuracy
Concentrate
Relaxed body
Relate to your audience
Arouse curiosity
Begin with a story
Use an Exhibit
Power of shocking facts
Closing with a poetic quotation
Close with a biblical quotation
Build up the climax
Making your meaning clear
Appeal to sight and sound
Use authoritative quotes
Be concrete
Cherish your vision
Cherish your ideals
Cherish your music
Clean thoughts make clean habits
Cumulation of facts for convincing 
Graphics

Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

You need to decide on what is your definite major purpose.
Success is always almost within reach if you keep persisting towards your definite major purpose.
Riches sometimes will come in such abundance you'll wonder where it was all these years.
You are the master of your own fate.
Write out clearly what you want to do and how much money you want to have. What are you going to do to obtain it and feel and believe that you already have it.
You need to develop money conscious.  You need to convince yourself and be determined to acquire money.  Your money is so thoroughly saturated with the desire of money that you see yourself already in possession of it.
My definite purpose is to build the best internet website selling colored stones and diamond jewelry ever.
Imagine yourself successful.
Set definite goals
Belief of your goals is starting point of successful goals.
Massive and continuous action towards it's attainment.

Highly organized Specialized knowledge towards the attainment of money.
Success and failure is the result of habit.
Proper planning circumvents lowly beginnings.
Definite purpose and Definite plans put in writing.
Collaborate in harmony.
Money can hear when you call for it.
Leaders possess:
Self Control,
Undoubted courage
Pleasing personality
Master of detail
Cooperation
Intensity of one's desires.
Public speaking needs sexual energy
Control comes from persistence of habit
The emotion of love brings artistic  expression in a person.
Love is spiritual in nature

Eliminate Emotions of:
Fear
Jealousy
Pride
Revenge
Greed
Superstition
Anger
Racism


Create Emotions of:
Respect
Love
Hope
Honor
Happiness
Calmness
Enthusiasm
Service
Persistance is the best master mind

The Ascent of Money

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

To Christian the love of money is the root of all evil.

What is money? Where did it come from? What exactly is money?

Money is a store of value.  Money is a medium of exchange. Money is a storehouse of power.  Money accelerates human energy.  Money is a representation of giving what mankind wants.  Money is a store of other people's time and efforts.

Money is Portable power.

Money is the root of "most" progress.

The creation of money is the ascent of man.

It is linked to emotional volatility.

Financial illiteracy is a death. 

Behind every great phenomenon there lies a financial secret.

Every minute of every hour of every week, someone, somewhere, is making financial transactions.

Society without money is poor, brutal and short.

Become successful in real estate and you'll have a financial orgy.

You need to create the production of money.

Lending money is inherently risky.

Money is not absolute value.  Money is worth what someone will give it to you.  Monetary expansion will make prices higher.

We shall never fully understand the truth about money.