Neuroscience and Critical Thinking: Understand the Hidden Pathways of Your Thought Patterns- Improve Your Memory, Make Rational Decisions, Tune Down Emotional Reactions, and Set Realistic Expectations

by Albert Rutherford

Understand your brain for wisdom, stability, peace, and clarity.Improve your critical and rational thinking skills by understanding the science of your brain. Being irrational and making snap judgments is natural. But you can prevent both if you know what cognitive patterns to look for. Start thinking effectively from the root - neuroscience and how it impacts your critical analysis and thinking. Critical thinking skills improve your decision-making muscle, speed up your deductive thinking skills, and improve your judgment. In Neuroscience and Critical Thinking, you'll find widely usable and situation-specific advice on how to view about your daily life, business, friendships, opinions, and even social media in a critical fashion.Easily spot errors in reasoning. -Think slowly and deliberately before making a snap judgment or decision-Question assumptions and opinions (including your own) -How to gather information before jumping to conclusions-Accept and expect that human nature is ultimately biased and prone to make cognitive errors Learn about the most important critical thinking principles as well as shortcuts to make better decisions. -Learn the main principles of critical thinking.-Solve underlying issues, not mere symptoms-Find the most rewarding aspects of any opportunity-Detect the thinking errors of larger groups or individualsAsk powerful questions to effectively self-assess. Level up your critical thinking skills and save time, filter out irrelevant information efficiently, and prioritize your resources to get the best results. Identify better problem-solving approaches rather than relying on standard methods that don't suit your case. Enhance your communication skills, reasoning, and logic. Get to know your brain to have better solution to problems, solve difficult tasks easier, and understand the world better.

Genres: Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Brain, Self Help, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2019

Reviews

[Selino V · Rating 3 out of 5]

As others have pointed out, this is a very basic intro to the connections between neuroscience and critical thinking. I’d purchase this for a high schooler or an adult looking for some rudimentary understanding. It’s well written and fairly accurate.

I’m especially considering sending this to my elderly parent who did not grow up with this knowledge. It would help deal with the info gap many elderly have between the internet, online scams, multilevel marketing, etc. 👍

[Isaac Samuel Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must read for all critical-thinkers.

I liked this book because it discusses the importance of critical-thinking coupled with neuroscience in a simplistic way; it’s very easy to follow. I recommend this book. Excellent!

[Hamid · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fabulous book on critical thinking. Very concise but fascinating and to the point. Delves into almost every aspect of critical thinking and sheds lights on where the faults in our reasoning process come from.

[Charles Godfrey Kamukama · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not until we learn how our minds function to reach the decisive decisions we make in our daily lives, we won't be able to navigate successfully on our earthly living. Albert navigated all the neuroscience systems to guide our thinking - conscious towards making well-informed decisions.

It's a book for everyone to tenaciously concord with in analysing his/her steps in decision making.

[Mise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice easy book that would be excellent for an 18-year old going to university

[David J Stricklin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Author of logic just plain wrong

A simple introduction to logic or a decent review for those who haven’t pondered the subject in a while. The author makes an error in this excerpt “There is no definitive and credible evidence that a lower rate of abortion has a direct correlation with a lower risk of breast cancer.” It is well established fact that women who defer pregnancy until later life and certainly those who defer (have abortion for unwanted pregnancies in their younger years) past age 30 are at increased risk of breast cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/c.... The author uses a bit of sleight of hand by using ‘direct correlation’ when the statement used in his example merely cited ‘correlation’ opening some room for argument but the general statement made by Schlafly and scientific background are sound.

[May · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book mentions some things that I already know and some things that I did not know before.
It is good to be reminded about neuroscience and critical thinking. Critical Thinking is very important. We need to be able to think in order to make rational decisions. We cannot act due to impulse, bias or emotions. It is best to be objective and not jump to conclusions. Critical Thinking is an important skill. And this is something that we can all obtain, if we work on it. It is best to have enough of the evidence to support a valid conclusion.

[Leonard Herrem · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am excited about the concept of critical thinking and the science behind the concept. There was a great deal of content on fallacies to help with identifying our erroneous thinking. This was helpful. I would have appreciated more content on the neuroscience of fallacious thinking. Especially the biochemistry and/or studies in the brain activity captured with visual MRI or other tools. Over all worth reading.

[ALBERLUCIO E PESSOA · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short introduction to Critical Thinking with some neuroscience and psychology information

Due to it's condensed format the text sometimes is too shallow on some neuroscientific aspects and even oversimplifies sometimes. But is a reasonable brief introduction to the topic and have lots os references that allow the reader to get more indepth information.

[Raza · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Informative Read

Another well-researched, informative read. I’m a huge fan of neuroscience, thinking, and optimizing my brain and this book covers a lot of that.

I definitely recommend it.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and to the point

This book is simple. It accesses how to think critically, how to form an argument, how to argue respectfully. Arguments are not always about winning, it's purpose is to understand another person's view.

[Megan McDowell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic book, there are 3 in this series. This author has many different books all with different and good insights, really digging into neuroscience. good for those needing a refresher or just looking to improve their skills.

[Tai Le · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is very basic. Big title but doesn’t prove useful much.

In summary, the book is so bad.

[Michael Tanios · Rating 2 out of 5]

- Human reasoning is shaped by biological bias
- Awareness of bias improves decision-making
- Critical thinking is a skill that can be trained

[Nguyen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the Vietnamese version of this book and I find it quite difficult to understand all of the contents. The book says about the basic knowledge of thinking logically; the way our brains operate, the theories about the brain, etc. Maybe this book is educational so I can't get everything from it. But some points I could understand are quite interesting.

Anyway, anyone who wants to research more about logic, brain, etc can refer to this book. Have fun!

[Michael Wolcott · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not so great. Rather pedantic in the writing, not much evidence, and really nothing new.

[Robin Hartman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice synopsis

Simply explained psychology behind the (il)logical appeal of conspiracy theories and the role of critical thinking and knowledge to combat falling into them.

[Dang Le]

good