Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
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Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
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Steven Novella
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No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever.
These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life. By immersing yourself in the science of cognitive biases and critical thinking, and by learning how to think about thinking (a practice known as metacognition), you'll gain concrete lessons for doing so more critically, more intelligently, and more successfully.
The key to successful critical thinking lies in understanding the neuroscience behind how our thinking works - and goes wrong; avoiding common pitfalls and errors in thinking, such as logical fallacies and biases; and knowing how to distinguish good science from pseudoscience. Professor Novella tackles these issues and more, exploring how the (often unfamiliar) ways in which our brains are hardwired can distract and prevent us from getting to the truth of a particular matter.
Along the way, he provides you with a critical toolbox that you can use to better assess the quality of information. Even though the world is becoming more and more saturated information, you can take the initiative and become better prepared to make sense of it all with this intriguing course.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Raymond
- 20-02-2017
Highly recomended for 1st yearPsychology students.
Most of The Great Courses provided by Audible, contain valuable and indepth material. I just wished I had listened to this particular course prior to my first year studying Psychology at University. Critical thinking plays a major role in the field of science, and much of what can be gathered in this lecture will prepare you for life at university.
Professor Steven Novella is an amazing lecturer, elaborating on real world applications of critical thinking that can appeal to just about everyone.
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- Doug
- 07-03-2017
Outstanding
Great source of knowledge! Enjoyed the 30 mins lectures due to my schedule. They were easy to retain due to their lecture size (bite size chunk).
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- Matthew
- 29-01-2017
A must listen for everyone
Bible for critical thinking. Amazing will definitely increase cognitive understanding and critical thinking ability as well. 20 words for review has now been fulfilled ty
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- Anonymous User
- 28-03-2018
Very eye opening and insightful
Has allowed me to mentally investigate the strange workings of the human mind, from cults to conspiracies and all the wacky things humans have reasoned in the past..
But don't trust my anecdotal evidence, review it for yourself!
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- Bec Booton
- 12-11-2019
Very good
I thought this lecture series was great. I have loved over 90% of the great courses that I’ve read and this was no exception. Prof Novella used great examples and kept me interested. I learned a few things too. Highly recommend if it sounds like something you’d enjoy.
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- David
- 03-05-2020
to open your mind to deception
I really enjoyed listening to these lectures they open your mind to the various ways that it could be deceived even when you don't realise it's happening
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- Grant
- 14-07-2020
Great series of talks on relevant topics
Helped me to be more aware of cognitive traps we fall into and to have better critical thinking skills.
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- Issam
- 08-12-2018
starts nice, ends boring
it's started really good, but the second half (science and on ward) gets boring with lots of words and less useful information
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- Terrie Nielsen
- 05-12-2016
excellent course
very informative and well presented i would highly recommend this product both enlightening and interesting
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- Paolo Pangan
- 31-07-2022
highly recommended
I love the topic. was well presented with lots of great examples. another great courses must
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