How to Think Independently

Learn to ask smart questions, draw conclusions, and analyze situations.

Independent thinking is critical thinking. And critical thinking is the key to a meaningful life: the path to sound decisions, effective reasoning, and clear awareness.

How to think independently is a guide for those who wish to firmly steer the ship of their own life. How to know what traps await those who wander through the world blindly? Incorrect facts? False numbers? Questionable truths or, worse yet, belief in them? We encounter these every day. But this book, like a primer from A to Z, will teach you how to think correctly. After all, only the art of thinking helps to separate the exceptional from the mediocre.
Patrick King is a bestselling author and a coach in social interaction skills. His work is based on a wide variety of sources, scientific research outcomes, academic experience, coaching, and real-life knowledge.
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Ideas and topics that the author develops in this book:
— levels of independent thinking;
— how to learn critical thinking;
— Nietzsche's lessons on self-discovery;
— why our feelings, emotions, and even memories are not reality at all;
— Paul-Elder's model of critical thinking and analysis;
— and most importantly: freedom from cognitive distortions, filters of thinking, and false past.