Toolkit For Thinking

Toolkit For Thinking

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  • Introduction
    The Dream of Progress
    Good strategy bad strategy
    Progress needs space, fluidity and a little chaos
    A formula for progress and achieving goals
    Progress needs a symbol
    Major progress can come from small slow improvements
  • 1) Goal Setting
  • 2) Creative Thinking: Developing ideas about how to achieve the goal
    5 Whys
    Brainstorming
    Concept Fan
    Fractionation
    Mind Mapping
    Random Word Stimulation
    Six Thinking Hats
    Subconscious Thinking
    SWOT Analysis
  • 3) Critical Thinking: Testing which ideas are true
    Anatomy of an Argument
    Types of Logical Fallacy
    Arguments and the Physical World
    Dissection of an Argument
    Logic and Logical Fallacies
    Treatment For An Argument
    When to be Paranoid
    Irrelevant conclusion
    Big Data and Progress
    Argument from personal incredulity
    Wrong direction
    Predictive Imperative
    You can believe what you like but progress needs truth
    Predictive Imperative
  • 5) Belief: Deciding which ideas will best help achieve your goals
    You can believe what you like but progress needs truth
  • 6) Application: Planning and implementing the ideas
    Cumulative Value
    Cost Benefit Analysis
    Decision Tree
    Roles and Responsibility Analysis (RACI)
    To really understand something you need to apply it
    The tyranny of perfection
    The values of progress
    Having a mental representation helps progress
    Personal Development Courses and Progress
    Investing in progress the problem of size and complexity
    can 10000hours make you an expert
    Given the choice how many people take the stairs
  • 7) Progress: Measuring distance travel to the goal
  • Defining ethics as a goal
    Can ethical progress follow the same approach as medical progress?
    Progress Index
  • Miscellaneous
  • Home Page
  • 2) Creative Thinking: Developing ideas about how to achieve the goal
    • 5 Whys
    • Brainstorming
    • Cause and Effect Diagrams
    • Concept Fan
    • Fractionation
    • Mind Mapping
    • Random Word Stimulation
    • Six Thinking Hats
    • Subconscious Thinking
    • SWOT Analysis
  • 3) Critical Thinking: Testing which ideas are true
    • Anatomy of an Argument
      • Arguments and the Physical World
      • Dissection of an Argument
      • Treatment For An Argument
      • Physical World Tested Arguments
    • Logic and Logical Fallacies
      • Types of Logical Fallacy
      • Inductive Logic Arguments
        • Cherry picking
        • Proof by example
        • Argument from repetition
        • Circular cause and consequence
        • Continuum fallacy
        • Correlation does not imply causation
        • Division
        • Ecological fallacy
        • Fallacy of the single cause
        • Argument from ignorance
        • Argument from silence
        • Association fallacy
        • Broken window fallacy
        • Circular cause and consequence
        • False compromise
        • Gambler's fallacy
        • Historian's fallacy
        • Incomplete comparison
        • Inconsistent comparison
        • Intentional fallacy
        • Luddite fallacy
        • Overwhelming exception
        • Post hoc ergo propter hoc
        • Prosecutor's fallacy
        • Regression fallacy
        • Psychologist's fallacy
        • Retrospective determinism
        • Spotlight fallacy
        • Texas sharpshooter fallacy
        • Two wrongs make a right
        • Wrong direction
      • Denial Arguments
        • Argument from personal incredulity
        • Nirvana fallacy
        • Burden of proof
        • Loki's Wager
        • Moving the goalpost
        • Perfect solution fallacy
        • Special pleading
        • Converse accident
        • Procrastination
      • Irrelevant Arguments
        • Ad hominem
        • Denying the correlative
        • Irrelevant conclusion
        • Appeal to ridicule
        • Equivocation
        • Leading question
        • False attribution
        • Contextomy
        • Accident
        • Ad nauseam
        • Appeal to authority
        • Appeal to consequences
        • Appeal to emotion
        • Appeal to fear
        • Appeal to flattery
        • Appeal to motive
        • Appeal to novelty
        • Appeal to poverty
        • Appeal to spite
        • Appeal to tradition
        • Appeal to wealth
        • Appeal to force
        • Appeal to the majority
        • Chronological snobbery
        • False analogy
        • Genetic fallacy
        • Hasty generalization
        • Misleading vividness
        • Pathetic fallacy
        • Poisoning the well
        • Proof by verbosity
        • Red herring
        • Sentimental fallacy
        • Sisyphean fallacy
        • Slippery slope
        • Straw man
        • Style over substance fallacy
        • Thought-terminating cliche
        • Tu quoque
        • Wishful thinking
      • Deductive Logic Arguments
        • Appeal to probability
        • Argument from fallacy
        • Bare assertion fallacy
        • Base rate fallacy
        • Conjunction fallacy
        • Fallacy of necessity
        • Suppressed correlative
        • False dilemma
        • If-by-whiskey
        • Affirmative conclusion from negative premise
        • Affirming a disjunct
        • Affirming the consequence
        • Appeal to nature
        • Begging the question
        • Definist fallacy
        • Denying the antecedent
        • Existential fallacy
        • Fallacy of exclusive premises
        • Fallacy of four terms
        • Fallacy of the undistributed middle
        • Homunculus fallacy
        • Illicit major
        • Masked man fallacy
        • Naturalistic fallacy
        • Negative proof fallacy
        • Package-deal fallacy
        • Reification
  • 6) Application: Planning and implementing the ideas
    • Cumulative Value
    • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Decision Tree
    • Roles and Responsibility Analysis (RACI)
  • 24 Fun Children's Garden Learning Activities
    • Introduction
    • January
      • Activities
      • Observe and Record
      • Routine Care
      • Sharing
    • February
      • Activities
      • Observe and Record
      • Routine Care
      • Sharing
    • Grow It Activities
    • Make It Activities
    • Observation and Craft Activies
      • Garden Bird Watch
    • Games and Quizzes
    • Share It Activities
  • Miscellaneous
    • Abstract and Physical Worlds
    • Special Offer
    • Defining the foundation
    • How does this help?
    • Mathematics and the Physical World
    • Problem Solving and the Physical World
    • Templates
    • Uncertainty and the Physical World
    • Useful Websites
    • When to be Paranoid
    • Mechanics of Progress
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Introduction


Subpages (6): Good strategy bad strategy Major progress can come from small slow improvements Progress and the modern concept of history Progress needs a symbol Progress needs space, fluidity and a little chaos The Dream of Progress

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