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The Five Elements Of Effective Thinking (2012)

by Edward B. Burger(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Nonfiction

publisher

Princeton University Press

review 1: Any student, worker or life long learner could benefit from reading this book. It contains practical advice on methods to incrementally improve on your situation by initiating action and iterating the solution by identifying where it is incorrect then applying a fix. The primary focus is to consistently probe your understanding of a topic through critical evaluation to highlight inaccuracies and short comings. Understanding the basics is highly stressed as a strong foundation is key to building any structure. We must then take these foundations and connect them with other pieces of knowledge by assessing how past and suspected future perspectives have and will judge the current paradigm. The most essential element given is number five; in order for us to really succeed, we... more must be willing to adapt. Change comes sudden and often. Identifying how we may use this change is essential to our success.
review 2: There are a few good ideas. I think as a teacher the notion that students should be doing the teaching as much as possible is definitely a good one. I also like the idea of assigning a designated "question asker" works well. The elements all line up to the methods of improved thinking: earth is for understanding, fire for making mistakes, air for asking questions, and water for mechanisms of flow and connection. There is also a 5th element of change, which "ironically" matched up with the Greek for non-changing matter.My biggest issue with this is before any of these enhanced thinking can take place, you have to have motivation. People, and especially children, are not motivated just because we want them to me. The book already assumes that there is a motivated, gritty learner just waiting to absorb all the knowledge out there. Nothing can be further from the truth. Not a bad read. I liked how it is short and to the point. less

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Ldguerra77

This is the text that goes along with the online course that I am taking now. This text alone is not nearly as powerful as I believe taking the course along with reading it will be. The book feels like "just advice". Working through the puzzles and experiences in the course bring this advice better to light. This book needs something for the reader to connect to. It seems to be written too broadly, towards too wide of an audience. Maybe it is just me...

shriya

This was a spur of the minute purchase when I saw it advertised on Audible's daily deals. The books has some useful principles and and advice on how to achieve them:Understand deeplyLearn through failureQuestion everythingUnderstand the flow of ideasIn particular, I really appreciated the advice to deliberately write terrible first drafts (or make terrible first attempts) and then work to improve them.

Tade

Nice short book about good habits for effective thinking.It can be read multiple times.

Babamchua

Read this now. Where was this when I was in law school?

jasonyoung

Great.

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