Critical Thinking In Practice

It doesn’t mean you’re right. In fact, it may mean something worse than being wrong.

Plus, why people don’t take advice.

This simple concept explains why the world is divided into an elite one percent, a highly effective 10 percent, and everyone else.

When we get into the habit of considering what could go wrong before we act, we can improve our odds of future success without having to first personally experience failure.

It takes discipline and conviction to stay true to a slow but steady course. Particularly when you’re regularly confronted with examples of instant success.

Because we do not like feeling uncomfortable, our natural tendency is to seek out information that conforms to our existing beliefs and to ignore conflicting information.

We value things we can have now more than things we will receive in the future.If there is uncertainty about what we may receive in the future, we also value it less.

Applying tough standards consistently sends the message that hard work and study are rewarded. Yes, it also differentiates among those who have performed well and those who have not.

Well-meaning does not mean impartial

The more we learn about nutrition, the more we learn that our inputs do not directly correlate to outputs.

We humans are profoundly affected by another type of consumption besides what we put in our mouths, and that is what we put in our minds.

What is by turns amusing and maddening about nutrition advice are the villains variously fingered as the causes of our ill health.

How could so many experts have been so wrong about something that everyone believed for decades?