Exercise: Quick Condensations Background Now here's a puzzle: what if you're overloaded by a text, such as a report you're reading, or many notes, or pages and pages of thinking on paper? How do you reduce the overload? You need to be able to condense a section of...
Exercise: Generating Your Own Warmup Questions Background In the previous exercise, I recommended using prepared questions to get an overview. That works very well when you find a set that is suitable for your situation. But sometimes you need to warm up and get an...
Did you set goals for 2022? How are you doing on them? If you haven’t made observable progress on your goals by the end of January, you may need help in formulating your goals so that they will guide and motivate you to successful results.[…]
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Gaining Mental Precision The effectiveness of your thinking ultimately comes down to its clarity and precision. In Level 3 classes, you go deep into mastering conceptual clarity. In the classes on Gaining Mental Precision, you will learn: How to analyze any written...
Exercise: Using Post-Its to Capture Complexity Background Something that is complex has many interrelated parts. It's not just that there are many different items, but that they connect to one another in a myriad of ways. That's what makes complex issues hard to think...
Self-direction is a foundational skill for following through on your good intentions and setting up a virtuous cycle of productivity. You will learn why self-discipline and self-indulgence lead to failure, and how to course correct if you find yourself stuck in a vicious cycle of struggle […]
Sometimes when you "think on paper," you don’t get paragraphs of clarity, but paragraphs of questions. The questions proliferate in all directions as you see more and more things you don't know and feel you need to know to make any progress. Questions proliferating in...
Your greatest success comes from setting and achieving major goals. The biggest mistake that people make in pursuing such goals is that they don't build motivation into every step. The effort you put in needs to pay off in some way to ensure you persevere to the end....
In this free teaser class, Lin Zinser and Jean Moroney will discuss what it means to have a rationally positive attitude toward life. This is not a pollyanna view that tries to look on the bright side of disasters. Nor is it the delusion that we live in the best of all possible worlds. Rather, it is an objective, value-oriented look at reality.[…]
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