Thinking Skills
How To Improve Your Analytical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking judges a claim. Analytical thinking works the problem: break it apart, find what is really driving it, and test your read before acting.
How to Improve Your Abductive Reasoning Skills: The Sherlock Holmes Method
School taught you deductive and inductive reasoning. The third kind, abductive reasoning, is where new ideas come from, and it is the one AI can't do.
What Half of 13 Reveals About Your Thinking
The power of questions comes down to how your brain works: it answers a question the moment you hear it, whether or not you want it to.
How to Improve Your First Principles Thinking Skills
First principles thinking is the most talked-about skill in innovation. It's also the most misunderstood. Here's what it actually looks like.
How to Overcome Expert Bias
Three checks that keep you in control of your own thinking when experts are in the room.
How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking
The best decision-makers aren't smarter. They control when, where, and how they decide. Here's the system that makes that possible.
How To Quit Defending Decisions You Know Are Wrong
The reason you can't let go isn't logic. It's that quitting would threaten who you believe you are.
How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You
When neuroscientists scanned the brains of people going along with a group, they expected to find lying. What they found instead was something far stranger. The group wasn't changing people's answers. It was changing what they actually saw. We'll get to that study in
Shell Had Six Years to Prepare. I Had Four Months.
Outstanding leaders under pressure aren't making great decisions. They're executing decisions they already made. The difference is preparation. And most leaders skip it.
How to Beat Decision Fatigue
Your brain doesn't shut down when it's tired. It quietly lowers its standards and never tells you.