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Cultivating a growth mindset and embracing challenges
Developing adaptive thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective learning frameworks and approaches
Don’t jump to conclusions.
A good critical thinker has built up the habit of not jumping to conclusions, especially in the absence of data.
They only make a judgment once they’ve studied a topic in some depth and can justify their position with sound reasoning.
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Write.
- Writing is thinking. The better we get at writing, the better we get at thinking.
- Writing also helps us separate what we actually know from what we think we know.
- Writing is one of the ultimate meta-skills: a skill that allows you to develop ...
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Change your opinion.
- Be unattached to information.
- Have the willingness to change an opinion in the face of better data.
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Argue with yourself.
- Great thinkers routinely and intelligently try to counter their own arguments.
- They go back and forth until only the most rational and strongest argument exists based on the knowledge they have.
- This is also the mission of any good scientist. The scientist tries to prove them...
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Read a lot and read widely.
Exposing yourself to unique points of view is a good way to spark constant curiosity and to stay open-minded.
Well-read people understand that there are always multiple ways to look at a problem and multiple lenses with which to view the world.
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Create systems, not goals.
For example, creating a system; habit or ritual that promotes writing everyday is more effective than setting the goal of writing an essay a week.
- A system can be measured, refined, and optimized. A goal cannot.
- You can work on the inputs of your system to create better quality...
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Seek Adversity.
- In adversity, you learn to create new rules and break old ones. You have to because it’s either do or die.
- The shift from a passive thinker to an active thinker is very subtle on the surface because it happens internally. It requires internal
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