Strengthen your thinking · Area 01 of 06
What thinking is, what it means to think well, and how good thinking happens.
Explore the other areasEvery decision you make, every conversation you lead and every plan you commit to runs on your thinking, yet almost none of us were ever taught how it works.
This area gives you that missing education. You build a shared language for what good thinking looks like, so you can spot it, name it and ask for it in yourself and the people around you, and you learn to recognise poor quality thinking and challenge it constructively. Once you can see the difference, you catch weak reasoning before it becomes a weak decision, and everything downstream, your conversations, your decisions and your actions, gets stronger.
A question to sit with
What does thinking mean to me, and what would it mean to think well in the parts of life, work and leadership that matter most?
Your guides here are people from the Thinking Squad, matched to you and to how you want to grow. They work one to one, and with groups and teams.
Each guide is qualified and informed in their area, with one mission: to elevate the quality of your thinking, conversations, decisions and actions.
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Our five top picks for this area, chosen from the full shelf for this area. Each one earns its place.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Kahneman gives you the two-systems model of the mind and a name for almost every bias you will ever meet, from anchoring to overconfidence. Once you have read it, you notice your own fast thinking doing the driving. It is the foundation for this whole pillar.
About 15 hours (499 pages); best read a chapter at a time
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed · 2015
Syed contrasts aviation, which treats every failure as data, with medicine, which too often buries it. You get a compelling case for why good thinking depends on how you handle being wrong. It pairs naturally with Kahneman: he names the biases, Syed shows what happens when institutions ignore them.
About 8 hours (336 pages)
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant · 2021
Grant makes rethinking a skill rather than a threat. You learn to argue like a scientist, hold opinions lightly and enjoy finding out you were wrong. For leaders it is the most readable route into intellectual humility, and the one people actually finish.
About 7 hours (320 pages)
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner · 2015
Tetlock studied thousands of forecasters for years and found ordinary people who beat intelligence analysts. The habits that set them apart, breaking questions down, updating in small steps, keeping score, are all learnable. It turns good judgement from a talent into a practice you can copy.
About 9 hours (352 pages)
Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking
The Long Now Foundation · 2003-present
Two decades of talks devoted to one question: what does it mean to think at the scale of civilisation? Speakers like Martin Rees, Alison Gopnik and Stuart Russell stretch your thinking horizon from this quarter to the next ten thousand years. The antidote to short-termism, one seminar at a time.
About 60 to 90 minutes per talk
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