Introduction To Thinking

Introduction to Thinking

A fun course

What is going on in my head?

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Did your parents teach you to think?

They assume they do.

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Do your teachers teach you to think?

They really think that they do!

Why is thinking Important?

Choices Choices Choices

This is Not a Thinking Course?

Introducing

Make Aware of

When Do We Think?

Answer a QuestionPlanning to achieve an objective

Face with something newTaking Action

Making Choices

Making a Choice

Freedom to Choose?

Most choices made for us

Instinctive

Learned Response

Thinking involved?

Conscious Choices

Aware of all facts

Aware of all alternatives

Aware of all elements in process

Thinking is Difficult

We think so that we can avoid thinking

Activities in the Brain

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Physical Brain

Development – Neo cortex

Neurons Synapses Neurotransmitters

On-going conversations

Conscious

Unconscious

Unconscious

Bodily functionsBreathingDigesting

Conscious

Random

Purposeful

Language / Words

Use of Words

Pictures Diagrams Charts

Feelings Emotions

Heart

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Health – Effects on Thinking

Physical

Mental

KnowledgeExperience

Thinking in a void

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“Thinking Traps”

A trap is something, not of your choice, that you fall into.

Beliefs, POV, Mind-Set

Filters for Viewing World

Cannot See,

Blind spot,

Bias Perspective My! – Mine! – Right or Wrong

Interests Agenda

Historical

Chronological

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Causative

Dominos

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Classifying

Categorizing

Naming

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Pros and Cons

Advantages – Disadvantages

Strength and Weaknesses

Rationalizing

After IT has happened!

Very clever

Forecasting PredictionProjecting

Fortune telling

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Logic

“Real thinking”

Analysis

Awakening

Thinking In Progress

TIP

Technology

Introduction To Thinking