Short Course

1. Introduction to Thinking A fun course What is going on in my head?

2. Did your parents teach you to think? They assume they do.

3. Do your teachers teach you to think? They really think that they do!

4. Why is thinking Important? Choices Choices Choices

5. This is Not a Thinking Course? Introducing Make Aware of

6. When Do We Think? Answer a Question Planning to achieve an objective Face with something new Taking Action Making Choices

7. Making a Choice Freedom to Choose?

8. Most choices made for us Instinctive Learned Response Thinking involved?

9. Conscious Choices Aware of all facts Aware of all alternatives Aware of all elements in process

10. Thinking is Difficult We think so that we can avoid thinking

11. Activities in the Brain

12. Physical Brain Development – Neo cortex Neurons Synapses Neurotransmitters

13. On-going conversations Conscious Unconscious

14. Unconscious Bodily functions Breathing Digesting

15. Conscious Random Purposeful

16. Language / Words Use of Words Pictures Diagrams Charts

17. Feelings Emotions Heart

18. Health – Effects on Thinking Physical Mental

19. Knowledge Experience Thinking in a void

20. “ Thinking Traps” A trap is something, not of your choice, that you fall into.

21. Beliefs, POV, Mind-Set Filters for Viewing World Cannot See, Blind spot,

22. Bias Perspective My! – Mine! – Right or Wrong Interests Agenda

23. Historical Chronological

24. Causative Dominos

25. Classifying Categorizing Naming

26. Pros and Cons Advantages – Disadvantages Strength and Weaknesses

27. Rationalizing After IT has happened! Very clever

28. Forecasting Prediction Projecting Fortune telling

29. Logic “Real thinking”

30. Analysis

31. Awakening Thinking In Progress TIP