Stinkin' Thinkin': 37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs and Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career and Your Life
- 2h 39m
- Gary S. Goodman
- G&D Media
- 2018
The US space program faced a problem. Astronauts didn't have a pen that could write inside a zero-gravity capsule. NASA invested upward of $1 million to devise a pen that could.
Their rivals faced the same problem, but they solved it for less than a dollar. They decided to use a pencil.
This story is emblematic of two styles of critical thinking and problem solving. America defined its quandary as a pen problem. "Fix the pen" became the marching order.
Others defined the issue as a writing challenge, so alternatives were more likely to be considered and adopted.
Most people lose friends, happiness, and career opportunities because they employ inadequate thinking skills and allow biases, false beliefs, and superstitions to govern their behavior. Even highly skilled professionals, such as physicians and attorneys, are not immune from bad thinking and runaway emotions. They can cost their clients fortunes and even their lives through poor advice and misdiagnoses.
This unique program will help you to:
- Identify the strengths and limitations of your dominant thinking styles
- Consider various models for tackling common and unusual challenges
- Apply case studies and hands-on opportunities to use different methods to analyze problems and generate multiple effective responses
- Adopt easy methods for creating clarity in thought and written and verbal communications
- Take practical pathways to success
In this Book
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Introduction
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Should You Ask the Barber if You Need a Haircut?
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Beware of Correlations, Coincidences, Superstitions, & Random Strings of Things
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Letting the Dead Hand of the past Strangle New Ideas
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Don't Sit on Your Best Ideas, Disseminate Them
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You are Not Powerless
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Overcoming Ambivalence
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Are You Paranoid or a Prophet?
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To All Lend Your Ear, but to Few Thy Tongue
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Defining the Problem Incorrectly
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That's Impossible!
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Forgiveness Dissolves Self-Contempt
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Beware—Visions of Slippery Slopes & Floodgates
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Devalue the Negative
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Inch-By-Inch It's a Cinch; Yard-By-Yard It's Hard!
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Stop Second-Guessing Yourself
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“You'll Never Learn English!”
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Every Day in Every Way You're Getting Better & Better!
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I'm Too Young, I'm Too Old, & I'm Too Fill-In-The-Blank
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“Money is the Root of all Evil”
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What Time Zone are You Thinking In?
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Stop Victimizing Yourself by “Awfulizing”
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Monitor Your Short Term & Long Term Thinking
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Give Yourself a Good 20 Minutes to Think!
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Thinking Things Have to Be Perfect or That They Will Be
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Is Scarcity Thinking Making You Poor?
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How to Avoid Ineffective Decision Making
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Thinking Out Loud—What are You Telling Yourself?
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Black Swans & Over-Generalizing
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Do No Harm
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Don't Drink the Kool-Aid
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Can You Count to Ten?
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Choose Optimism—Treat Bad News as Good News
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Overcoming Fearful Thoughts
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Lifting the Fog of Thought
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Give up Resistant Thoughts
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How to Dash Self-Pity
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Eliminate Self-Criticism & Stop Criticizing others
