Sharpening Skills

The most skilled people in any endeavor have something in common. They love to be critiqued. But…

A Great Big List of Tests

5 ways to listen better

“I just know.” Cognitive bias and the evidence pyramid

Decision-making: Who has the “D”?

How to motivate yourself to change your behavior

THINKING and TESTING: 24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally

Thinking and testing: intellectual humility can make us better thinkers

Thinking: critical thinking and analysis. Even kids can do it.

Increasing your SysQ is not just a powerful way to sharpen your thinking; it’s also provides a powerful set of tools for communicating it.

Humble inquiry

“My-side bias” makes it difficult for us to see the logic in arguments we disagree with

Testing: Daniel Kahneman on “Cognitive traps”

Building a data-driven team

Thinking: Cognitive flexibility

Testing: What is reality? Why we should hold our views in a skeptical manner

Testing: Want to be smarter? Cultivate your intellectual humility

We can train our brains to do just about anything

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