Strengthen your thinking · Area 05 of 06
How to understand your own thinking: your styles, preferences, strengths, biases and blind spots, and how you work with AI.
Explore the other areasYou cannot upgrade thinking you cannot see. Your worldview, beliefs and mindsets shape every judgement you make, mostly without you noticing, and until you know your own patterns and traps, they are choosing for you.
Getting to know yourself as a thinker brings those patterns into view. You learn where your thinking is strong and where it is likely to trip you, and because you can catch your own traps in the moment, you think more clearly when it matters most.
A question to sit with
What do I need to know about myself to understand how I think, and how can I improve the quality of my thinking when it counts?
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.
Insight: The Power of Self-Awareness in a Self-Deluded World
Tasha Eurich · 2017
Most of us believe we are self-aware; Eurich's research says about 15 per cent of us actually are. This book shows you the gap between how you see yourself and how others see you, then gives you tools to close it. It is the single best starting point for this whole pillar.
About 8 hours (352 pages)
Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
Carol S. Dweck · 2006, updated edition 2017
This is the book behind the idea that your beliefs about your own abilities shape what you attempt and how you respond to setbacks. It gives you a language for catching yourself in fixed-mindset moments, at work and at home with your children. A foundation text for this shelf.
About 8 hours (320 pages)
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke · 2018
Duke spent years at the poker table watching people fool themselves, and she names the traps with precision. You learn to separate the quality of your decisions from the luck of your outcomes. A sharp, honest look at your own reasoning under uncertainty.
About 7 hours (288 pages)
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef · 2021
Galef's question is simple: are you defending your beliefs or mapping the terrain? This book helps you catch yourself in soldier mode and switch to scout mode. It is the friendliest field guide to your own motivated reasoning you will find.
About 6 hours (288 pages)
Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam · 2015-present
Vedantam turns rigorous psychology into stories you actually remember. Each episode shows you an unconscious pattern that drives how you think and choose. The annual You 2.0 series is a quiet masterclass in knowing your own mind.
About 50 minutes per episode, weekly
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