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Decisions Are Experiments
Transcript: Critical thinking is not merely an intellectual exercise, it’s meant to provide reason and logic so that you can make good decisions. When the time comes to make a decision, you’ve done all the work. You’ve described the problem, gathered information from a variety of perspectives, and interpreted and evaluated the evidence and relevant ...
Why You Need to Develop Your Critical Thinking
Transcript: If you are a human being with a brain, then you are thinking all the time. You’re thinking right now. So, what exactly is critical thinking? Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul are prominent authorities on the subject. In their writings, they describe critical thinking as “the discipline of ensuring that you use ...
How to Handle Burnout Symptoms
Transcript: We all know that some stress is good for you, right? I mean, performers and athletes claim that stress keeps their skills sharp and motivates them to achieve their personal best. Stress is the subject of plenty of scientific research. The Yerkes–Dodson law is just one piece of data that illustrates how performance increases ...
Constraints Are Good for Innovation
Transcript: Way back in 1960, Theo Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, he accepted a bet with his publisher Bennett Cerf. Cerf challenged Geisel to write a book using only 50 different words, and the result became Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to sell over 200 million copies and is now one of ...
How to Ask More Powerful Questions
Transcript: In 1965, a guy named Dewayne Douglas, he was the football coach at the University of Florida, he watched his players run around in sweat and drink gallons of water for hours in the hot Florida sunshine and he squinted up into the sun one day and he wondered out loud to himself, why ...
You Can Ask for More Than You Think
Transcript: People who are seen by others as getting assertiveness right, often mistakenly think they’ve gotten it wrong. In 2014, there was a study by some students at Columbia Business School, and they found that 57% of those who believed that they were appropriately assertive in their requests, their negotiations, their conversations, they were actually ...
