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Personal Development Personal Transformation Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking: How To Find Out What Really Works

How to Find Out What Can Get You Towards Your Goals (And What Will Not)
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (36 ratings)
2,038 students
Created by André Klapper, PhD
Last updated 11/2019
English
English
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What you'll learn

  • FORMULATE a question: will X get you Y?
  • IDENTIFY relevant evidence and INTERPRET it correctly
  • AVOID reasoning fallacies that almost everybody falls prey to
  • ELIMINATE alternative explanations systematically until you uncover the truth
  • GATHER evidence yourself when no other evidence is available
  • DRAW conclusions with scientific precision

Requirements

  • Willingness to do the necessary detective work to uncover the truth

Description

Will starting a business make you rich?

Is getting up at 5 AM every morning the key to success?

Does money make people happy?

Life is full of questions and answering these questions is often key to getting what we want.

If we arrive at the wrong answers, we fail to get what we want.

If we arrive at the right answers, success is within our grasp.

Learn the strategies that scientists use to identify the right answers and use these strategies to make better life decisions.

What will you be able to DO after this course?

  • FORMULATE a question: will X get you Y?

  • IDENTIFY relevant evidence and INTERPRET it correctly.

  • AVOID reasoning fallacies that almost everybody falls prey to.

  • ELIMINATE alternative explanations systematically until you uncover the truth.

  • GATHER evidence yourself when no other evidence is available.

  • DRAW conclusions with scientific precision.

After this course, you will have a complete blueprint with simple step-by-step instructions for making solid evidence-based decisions in every area of your life.

My first science classes shattered my world.

Afterwards, I saw reasoning errors everywhere.

Things I had believed for a long time turned out to be false.

Other things that I had rejected suddenly made a lot more sense.

It was shocking at times but also incredibly fascinating.

I enjoyed that everything became much clearer to me...

... and I started to feel a lot more confident in my opinions and decisions.

What I love about scientific thinking is that you can apply it everywhere.

Whether you want to be happier, more successful, wealthier, more productive, focussed, ... in all of these areas, scientific thinking can help to discard ineffective strategies and identify what truly works.

However...

This course is for thoughtful decision-makers.

If you prefer to make fast spontaneous decisions, you will not like this course.

If you do not like doing some detective work to uncover the truth, you will not like this course.

This course is for you if...

  • you want to ensure that your beliefs and decisions are correct

  • you want to avoid the mistakes that most people make

  • you are willing to put in the extra effort that most people skip

How does this course work?

Science classes usually involve years of intensive training.

However, you do not need years of training to reap most of its benefits.

This course is designed to provide you with 80% of the benefits for 1% of the effort.

You do not need to learn any equations, measurement theory, or anything like that.

Instead, you can master the key principles in only a few lectures.

Once you click on the red enroll button, the lectures will guide you through the material in easily digestible steps.

At the end of the course, you will have a complete step-by-step blueprint that you can use to make better decisions in every area of your life.

I will also walk you through a case study so that you can practice your new skills.

Also, you can ask me questions anytime and can have my full support when you apply the blueprint to your own cases.

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to make better decisions in any area of their life
  • People who want to sharpen their thinking and avoid common reasoning fallacies
  • People who dare to find out which of their beliefs are wrong and which are true

Featured review

Arun Kumar Kootharasan Nadar
Arun Kumar Kootharasan Nadar
207 courses
26 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 59 months ago
Andre is amazing. I have bought two of his courses on how to write a research paper and this one critical thinking. he is a great researcher and very helpful and informative. I have learned so many crucial things now I will apply it into my research.

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 11m total length

  • Preview01:49

  • Preview09:11
  • Everyday examples of reasoning fallacies
    06:17

  • The most powerful strategy to rule out alternative explanations
    04:42
  • More types of strategies
    05:06
  • The second-best strategy to rule out alternative explanations
    07:24
  • The simple way to rule out coincidences
    03:13
  • The elegant way to rule out coincidences
    05:06
  • How to find out whether other things work better
    04:39
  • How to draw conclusions efficiently
    04:15

  • The Complete Scientific Thinking Blueprint
    04:12
  • Case Study: Does Starting a Business Make People Rich?
    12:00
  • Next steps
    01:35
  • Conclusion
    00:36
  • More Things to Learn
    01:02

Instructor

André Klapper, PhD
Researcher, Neuroscientist, Psychologist
André Klapper, PhD
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 1,909 Reviews
  • 13,987 Students
  • 9 Courses

Psychology & Neuroscience researcher and best-selling instructor with more than 10+ years of training and experience.

Learning how our mind and brain work and conducting research on these topics has been incredibly fascinating for me and it definitely enriched my life.

My mission is to share my experience with other people and help them to get the most out of themselves.

I have courses on Research, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

Why learn from me?

- 1800+ enthusiastic reviews (4.5 stars on average) from people all over the world.

- Short and concise lectures - straight to the point without any unnecessary information.

- Simple and easy approach - complex ideas are broken down into bite-sized chunks.

- Quality content. PhD, 10+ years of training and experience, scientific publications, prices, etc.

- It’s fun. I love the topics I teach and want you to fall in love with them, too.

Join 10000+ students and see for yourself what my courses have in store for you.

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